sea wrack

American  

noun

1. seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.

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sea wrack British  

noun

1. any of various seaweeds found on the shore, esp any of the larger species

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Etymology

Origin of sea wrack

First recorded in 1540–50

Example Sentences

The beach was a stony spit clogged with low-tide sea wrack, but it was beautiful to me, more beautiful than any champagne-white tourist beach back home.

From Literature

May's writing, in this first of a trilogy, is pitch-perfect — so vivid that you can practically hear the gulls' screeches and smell the sea wrack on the shore.

From Seattle Times

They are made of iodine and sea wrack.

From Project Gutenberg

There's sea wrack for kelp, and every other con-vanience any one can require; and a poorer set of devils than ye 'll see when we get down there, there's nowhere to be found.

From Project Gutenberg

On the 27th of February, Cook continued his course to the north, and soon fell in with the sea wrack of the rocks mentioned by the narrator of Lord Anson's voyage.

From Project Gutenberg