bladderwrack

See also: bladder wrack

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From bladder +‎ wrack.

Noun

bladderwrack (usually uncountable, plural bladderwracks)

  1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
    • 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:
      Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.

Synonyms

  • black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack

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