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bladder wrack

bladder wrack noun: fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.

bladder wrack: fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
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Noun

bladder wrack (countable and uncountable, plural bladder wracks)

  1. Fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
    Synonyms:
    black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack
  2. Nereocystis luetkeana, kelp common on the northeastern Pacific coast.
    Synonyms:
    edible kelp, bull kelp, bullwhip kelp, ribbon kelp, giant kelp

Synonyms of bladder wrack

  • black tang
  • rockweed
  • bladder fucus
  • sea oak
  • black tany
  • cut weed
  • dyers fucus
  • red fucus
  • rock wrack
  • edible kelp
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All synonyms of bladder wrack

Forms of bladder wrack

pluralbladder wracks

Questions about bladder wrack

What does bladder wrack mean?
Bladder wrack means fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
What part of speech is bladder wrack?
Bladder wrack is a noun.
What is the plural of bladder wrack?
The plural of bladder wrack is bladder wracks.

Words near bladder wrack in the dictionary

  1. bladder plum
  2. bladder plums
  3. bladder senna
  4. bladder worm
  5. bladder worms
  6. bladder wrack
  7. bladder wracks
  8. bladderball
  9. bladderdash
  10. bladdered
  11. bladderet

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