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sea wrack

noun

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


sea wrack

noun

  1. any of various seaweeds found on the shore, esp any of the larger species
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sea wrack1

First recorded in 1540–50
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Example Sentences

The heaps of sea-wrack will often reward one who examines them carefully for deep-water species.

These little crustaceans exist in countless numbers under the masses of sea-wrack on the beach.

It exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.

The sea-wrack was banked up in the darkness behind, and between two stones at the mouth there were the remains of a recent fire.

Some sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.

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