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sea-weed

sea-weed is the alternative spelling of seaweed.

Meaning of seaweed

Noun

seaweed (usually uncountable, plural seaweeds)

  1. (usually) Any of numerous marine algae, such as a kelp.
    • We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 16
  2. (broadly, usually) Any of various fresh water plants and algae.
    • With light penetrating to the lake bottom, beds of seaweed flourished where little had grown before.1995, Dan McCosh, “Aliens among us”, in Popular Science, page 94

Forms of sea-weed

pluralsea-weeds

Questions about sea-weed

What is sea-weed the alternative spelling of?
Sea-weed is the alternative spelling of seaweed.

Words near sea-weed in the dictionary

  1. sea-views
  2. sea-violet
  3. sea-violets
  4. sea-wave
  5. sea-waves
  6. sea-weed
  7. sea-weeds
  8. sea-whip
  9. sea-whipcord
  10. sea-whipcords
  11. sea-whips

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