sea wrack


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

Origin of sea wrack

1
First recorded in 1540–50

Words Nearby sea wrack

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How to use sea wrack in a sentence

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

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • These little crustaceans exist in countless numbers under the masses of sea-wrack on the beach.

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • It exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.

    Bouvard and Pcuchet | Gustave Flaubert
  • 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.

    The Manxman | Hall Caine
  • Some sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.

British Dictionary definitions for sea wrack

sea wrack

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

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