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seaweeds

seaweeds is the plural 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

Phrases with seaweeds

Questions about seaweeds

What is seaweeds the plural of?
Seaweeds is the plural of seaweed.

Words near seaweeds in the dictionary

  1. seaweed
  2. seaweed dermatitis
  3. seaweed marquetry
  4. seaweeded
  5. seaweedlike
  6. seaweeds
  7. seaweedy
  8. Seawell
  9. Seawells
  10. seawhip
  11. seawhips

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