sea wrack
seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
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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 ArnoldThese little crustaceans exist in countless numbers under the masses of sea-wrack on the beach.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldIt exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.
Bouvard and Pcuchet | Gustave FlaubertThe 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 CaineSome sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr Jordan
British Dictionary definitions for sea wrack
any of various seaweeds found on the shore, esp any of the larger species
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