tangle

From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.

(medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.

A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.


tangle

en-noun

tangle (countable and uncountable, plural tangles)

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.

(in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.

(Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.


kelp

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

→ French: kelp

→ German: Kelp

→ Irish: ceilp

→ Scottish Gaelic: ceilp

→ Spanish: quelpo

From Middle English culp, culpe, of uncertain origin; possibly from Old English *colba, *colfa, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō (“bulb, cob”), from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object, club”). Compare Middle High German kolbe (“clublike plant”), Old Norse kolfr (“bulb of a plant”).

cog

Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.

2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).


tang

en-noun

tang (countable and uncountable, plural tangs)

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

Ascophyllum nodosum
Ascophyllum nodosum#Translingual

(rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)


wrack

wrack (countable and uncountable, plural wracks)

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”), the source of wreak and wreck. Doublet of vraic.
Cognate with German Wrack, Old Norse rek, Danish vrag, Swedish vrak, Old English wræc); also compare Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wrakjan, “persecute”), Old Norse reka (“drive”).

der

Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.

goémon

any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus


hijiki

“We're going to start you out, for the first three days, on psyllium seeds and hijiki.”

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 117:

A. Hijiki, the branched seaweed frequently used in small amounts in salads and garnishes, and other kinds of seaweed do contain more arsenic than other foods, but no arsenic-related health problems have been traced to hijiki in the United States.

2007 August 28, C. Claiborne Ray, “Suspect Seaweed”, in New York Times:

Sargassum fusiforme, a brown seaweed used in Japanese cuisine.


kombu

[T]he productions of Jeso, in particular, are as follows: konbu, or sea-cabbage, birds of prey for hawking, whales and other sea-fish, skins of otters, beavers, seals, and stags, castoreum, gold, silver, adamantine spar.

1855, Richard Hildreth, “[Appendix.] Note H. Account of Japan, Chiefly Extracted from Japanese Works. […]”, in Japan as It Was and Is, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company; New York, N.Y.: J[ames] C[ephas] Derby, →OCLC, page 567:

The chief occupation along the shore is gathering the seaweed called kombu (something like our kelp, or quite the same), which is sent in such large quantities to China; and a certain amount of fishing is also done. The kombu grows upon submarine rocks, but for drying it a wide, flat space is needed, and the houses, therefore, are placed along the sandy beaches; and almost every beach however small is occupied.

1874 December 31, Benj[amin] Smith Lyman, “[Letter to General Horace Capron, Commissioner and Adviser to the Kaitakushi]”, in Horace Capron et al., Reports and Letters to the Kaitakushi, […], Tokyo: Published by the Kaitakushi [Hokkaidō Development Commission], published 1875, →OCLC, page 424:

A kombu or kombu-shiitake stock is also quick and mineral rich and makes a fragrant base for broth or miso soup. Wipe a six-inch piece of kombu seaweed with a damp cloth to remove dust and excess salt. Place the kombu in a pot with four to six cups of water. Bring to a light boil and simmer for five minutes. Steep for five minutes. Remove seaweed and use stock. The kombu can be cut and used again in soups or other dishes.

1987 January–February, Margaret Lee Braun, “Warming Up with Winter Soups”, in Stephan Bodian, editor, Yoga Journal, number 72, Berkeley, Calif.: California Yoga Teachers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80, column 1:

The Japanese tangles are called konbu and represent important genera of seaweeds which have been used as food since ancient times. […] Konbu is harvested mainly in the various coastal areas of Hokkaido during the period from the last ten days of May to the end of September. Konbu is mostly dried in the sun soon after harvest, but sometime^([sic]) in a hot-air drier depending on weather.

1987, Kazutosi Nisizawa, Hiroyuki Noda, Ryo Kikuchi, Tadaharu Watanabe, “The Main Seaweed Foods in Japan”, in Mark A. Ragan, Carolyn J. Bird, editors, Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium Held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 27 – August 1, 1986 […] (Developments in Hydrobiology; 41), Dordrecht, Boston, Mass.: Dr. W. Junk Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, section 4 (Laminaria (konbu) and Hizikia (hiziki)), page 12:

When it comes to kaiseki, there can be no avoiding a discussion on the subject of dashi, the simple stock based on dried bonito flakes. Almost every dish is built on a foundation of dashi. Although there are many variations, its fundamental ingredients are kombu kelp, dried bonito flakes and water. Kombu contains amino acids such as glutamic acid and aspartic acid and dried bonito flakes contain inosinic acid. In combination these flavor-enhancing acids act to amplify the umami flavor in any dish.

2006, Yoshihiro Murata, Kaiseki: The Exquisite Cuisine of Kyoto’s Kikunoi Restaurant, Tokyo: Kodansha International, →ISBN, page 161:

It [monosodium glutamate] was discovered in 1908 by a Japanese scientist, Kikunae Ikeda, who was trying to pinpoint the source of the intense deliciousness of broth made from kombu seaweed.

2007 February 18, Fuchsia Dunlop, “China’s true dash of flavor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-18:

Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine.


wakame

Atlantic wakame is actually badderlocks.

Loosely, any seaweed in the family Alariaceae.


rufa

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rufa m (genitive singular rufa, nominative plural rufaí)

rufa (genitive singular)
rufaí (nominative plural)
rufa (indefinite nominative singular)
rufaí (indefinite nominative plural)
a rufa (indefinite singular vocative)
a rufaí (indefinite plural vocative)
rufa (genitive indefinite singular)
rufaí (genitive indefinite plural)
rufa (dative indefinite singular)
rufaí (dative indefinite plural)
an rufa (definite nominative singular)
na rufaí (definite nominative plural)
an rufa (definite genitive singular)
na rufaí (definite genitive plural)
leis an rufa (dative definite singular)
don rufa (dative definite singular)
leis na rufaí (dative definite plural)

Saccharina latissima
Saccharina latissima#Translingual

(in the plural) sea belt (Saccharina latissima)


sea grape

en-noun

sea grape (countable and uncountable, plural sea grapes)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sea grape.wav

Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).


arame

A seaweed, Eisenia bicyclis, used in Japanese cuisine.


昆布

From earlier 綸布 (OC *kruːn paːs, “green ribbon + cloth”), due to the resemblance in appearance (Erya).

och-l

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ pu⁵¹/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ pou̯³³/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² pɔ²¹/

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ pu⁵¹/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ pou̯³³/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² pɔ²¹/

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

(often in traditional Chinese medicine) seaweed; kelp; laminara; ecklonia


昆布

昆布 (canonical)
昆布 (canonical)
konbu (romanization)

Daijisen#Online_search_engines
John Batchelor (missionary)
Kombu
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shoku Nihongi

First cited to a record in the Shoku Nihongi, written 715 CE.
Theories include:
* From Middle Chinese 昆布 (MC kwon puH, “seaweed, kelp”).
* From Ainu, possibly via Ainu コムブ (kombu, “a brown seaweed, Laminaria”), which may also be borrowed from Middle Chinese 昆布 (MC kwon puH, “seaweed, kelp”).
The early date of first citation, and the existence already in 715 of the kanji spelling 昆布, seems to make a Chinese derivation more likely. See the Wikipedia article about kombu for additional etymology details.
Cognates among the Ryukyuan languages include Kunigami 昆布 (kubū), Okinawan 昆布 (kūbu), Southern Amami Ōshima 昆布 (kubu), Miyako 昆布 (kubu), and Yaeyama 昆布 (kubu).

m+

昆布の熨斗 ― konbu no noshi ― kombu noshi


미역

miyeok (romanization)
멱 (alternative contraction)

First attested in the Gugeupganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 1489, as Middle Korean 모〮욕〮 (Yale: mwóywók). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 목욕 (沐浴, mogyok, “bathing”).

ko-etym-nativised

미역을 감다

(dated) bathing / swimming (in a river, etc.)


phaeophyte

(biology) Any brown alga (of the class Phaeophyceae)


brown alga

Any of many seaweeds of the class Phaeophyceae.


dúlamán

dúlamáin (genitive singular)
dúlamán (indefinite nominative singular)
a dhúlamáin (indefinite singular vocative)
dúlamáin (genitive indefinite singular)
dúlamán (dative indefinite singular)
an dúlamán (definite nominative singular)
an dúlamáin (definite genitive singular)
leis an dúlamán (dative definite singular)
don dúlamán (dative definite singular)
dúlamán
dhúlamán
ndúlamán

/d̪ˠuːl̪ˠəˈmˠɑːn̪ˠ/

/ˈd̪ˠuːlˠəmˠɑːnˠ/

/ˈd̪ˠuːlˠəmˠænˠ/

Earlier dubh-lomán, from dubh (“black”) and lomán (“log”).

Pelvetia canaliculata
Pelvetia canaliculata#Translingual

channelled wrack (Pelvetia canaliculata), a type of edible seaweed.


Fucales

A taxonomic order within the class Phaeophyceae – brown algae that include many of the most common littoral seaweeds.


Phaeophyceae

From New Latin phaeo- (“gray”) + -phyceae (“seaweed”).

A taxonomic class within the phylum Heterokontophyta.

A taxonomic class within the phylum Ochrophyta.

Dictyotales

(class in Ochrophyta): Dictypophycidae, Discosporangiophycidae, Fucophycidae, Ishigeophycidae - subclasses


Fucus

→ Russian: фу́кус (fúkus)

Borrowed from Latin fucus (“lichen, rouge, red dye”), from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Fucaceae – certain brown alga.


spiral wrack

Fucus spiralis
Fucus spiralis#Translingual

A species of seaweed, Fucus spiralis, living on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.


feamainn

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feamainn f (genitive singular feamainne)

feamainne (genitive singular)
feamainn (indefinite nominative singular)
a fheamainn (indefinite singular vocative)
feamainne (genitive indefinite singular)
feamainn (dative indefinite singular)
an fheamainn (definite nominative singular)
na feamainne (definite genitive singular)
leis an bhfeamainn (dative definite singular)
don fheamainn (dative definite singular)
feamainn
fheamainn
bhfeamainn

/ˈfʲamˠən̠ʲ/

/ˈfʲæmˠən̠ʲ/

[ˈfʲæːmˠɪn̠ʲ]

From Middle Irish femain, femmain (“(edible) seaweed”), from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, related to Old Breton goumon (late Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon (“seaweed”)), whence French goémon.

Zostera marina
Zostera marina#Translingual


若布

若布 (canonical)
若布 (canonical)
wakame (romanization)

Thought to derive from 若(わか) (waka, “young, youth”) + 海布(め) (me, “edible seaweed”). Attested in the Man'yōshū of 759 as 和可米(わかめ) (wakame).

ja-compound

wakame, Undaria pinnatifida, a species of edible seaweed


fuko

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fuko (accusative singular fukon, plural fukoj, accusative plural fukojn)

fukon (accusative singular)
fukoj (plural)
fukojn (accusative plural)


ceilp

ceilpe (genitive singular)
ceilp (indefinite nominative singular)
a cheilp (indefinite singular vocative)
ceilp (dative indefinite singular)
an cheilp (definite nominative singular)
na c{{{3}}} (definite genitive singular)
leis an gceilp (dative definite singular)
don cheilp (dative definite singular)
ceilp
cheilp
gceilp


ceilp

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ceilp f (genitive singular ceilpe, plural ceilpean)

ceilpe (genitive singular)
ceilpean (plural)
ceilp
cheilp


fucus

From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).

Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.

a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint)

One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.

1853, John Ruskin, “Torcello”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § I, page 11:


fucoid

en-adj

fucoid (comparative more fucoid, superlative most fucoid)

more fucoid (comparative)
most fucoid (superlative)

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).

The first cell division in zygotes of the fucoid brown alga Pelvetia compressa is asymmetric […]

2001, S. Bisgrove, D. Kropf, “Asymmetric cell division in fucoid algae”, in Journal of Cell Science, No. 114, 4319-4328:

Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.


ectocarpoid

(biology) Any brown alga of the order Ectocarpales


badderlocks

Perhaps Baldr's locks, after the Norse god.

(Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta


oarweed

The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.

1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. […], London: […] Georg Humble […], →OCLC, signature [D6], verso, paragraph 3:

Laminaria digitata
Laminaria digitata#Translingual

A brown alga, Laminaria digitata, found on exposed shores.


bladderwrack

en-noun

bladderwrack (usually uncountable, plural bladderwracks)

bladderwracks (plural)
bladder wrack (alternative)

Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.

2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:

Fucus vesiculosus
Fucus vesiculosus#Translingual

Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.


sargassum

Any of many brown algae of the genus Sargassum; gulfweed


laminaria

/ˌlæmɪˈnɛəɹi.ə/

/ˌlæmɪˈnɛɹi.ə/

The stands of sea tangles and long-stalked laminarias are, in their way, an Atlantic counterpart of the great submarine jungles of the Pacific, where the kelps rise like giant forest trees, 150 feet from the floor of the sea to the surface.

1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea:

Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae.


laminaria

laminaria (nominative singular)
laminarie (nominative plural)
laminarii (genitive singular)
laminarii (genitive plural)
laminaryj (archaic genitive plural)
laminarii (dative singular)
laminariom (dative plural)
laminarię (accusative singular)
laminarie (accusative plural)
laminarią (instrumental singular)
laminariami (instrumental plural)
laminarii (locative singular)
laminariach (locative plural)
laminario (singular vocative)
laminarie (plural vocative)

laminaria (any kelp of the genus Laminaria)


sargasso

sargasso (countable and uncountable, plural sargassos or sargassoes)

From Portuguese sargaço (“(originally) the Lisbon false sun-rose or woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum); (now) gulfweed, sargasso”), ultimately from Latin salicastrum (“kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets”), from salix (“plant of the genus Salix; willow”) + -astrum (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance). Salix is derived from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). The English word is cognate with French sargasse, Spanish sargazo. The capitalized form of sense 2 (“a confused, tangled mass or situation”), Sargasso, is probably a reference to the Sargasso Sea.

der

SARGASSO, the Sea-Lentile.

[1721, N[athan] Bailey, “SARGASSO”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2:

Thus the productions of Jamaica, and other places bordering on the gulph of Mexico, may be firſt brought by the ſtream out of the gulph, inveloped in the ſargaſſo or alga of the gulph round Cape Florida, and hurried by the current either along the American ſhore, or ſent into the ocean in the courſe along the ſtream, and then by the ſet of the ſtream; and the prevailing winds, which generally blow two-thirds of the year, wafted to the ſhores of Europe, where they are found.

1785 April, “Arctic Zoology. 2 Vols. […] [book review]”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume LIX, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, […], →OCLC, page 248:

A number of cryptogamic plants swim about at random in the waters, among which the most interesting, perhaps, in our present state of knowledge, is the sargasso, or gulf-weed of voyagers (Fucus natans), which is found in the Gulph of Florida, and some other parts of the ocean floating in masses or fields, many miles in length.

1826, James L[awson] Drummond, “Of the Root (Radix)”, in First Steps to Botany, Intended as Popular Illustrations of the Science, Leading to Its Study as a Branch of General Education, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 31:

It is well known to seamen, and others who have crossed the Atlantic ocean, that a certain part of that sea is generally covered more or less with a particular species of weed, called gulf-weed, but the reason of its accumulating there, and its origin, have given rise to much difference of opinion. [...] [T]he part of the ocean in which it is found is usually called the Sargasso sea. The Sargasso weed is also familiarly called tropical grapes, from being found in the vicinity of the northern tropic, but it is most generally known by the name of Sargasso or gulf-weed.

1832 June, “[Maritime Papers, Reviews of Voyages, &c.] I.—Sargasso Weed.”, in The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs in General, volume I, number 4, London: Brown, Son and Ferguson, →OCLC, page 175:

There is no warm current, or if one, a very feeble one, flowing out of the South Atlantic. Most of the drift matter borne upon the ice-bearing current into that sea finds its way to the equator, and then into the veins which give volume to the Gulf Stream, and supply the sargasso of the North Atlantic with extra quantities of drift. The sargassos of the South Atlantic are therefore small.

1864, M[atthew] F[ontaine] Maury, “The Gulf Stream”, in The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, 11th revised edition, London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, […], →OCLC, § 140, page 50:

The fauna of the modern floating sargasso-meadows is composed of highly specialized and unique species of pelagic animals. [...] The community of organisms which is found in these sargasso-flotillas is described in the report on the Challenger Expedition by C[harles] Wyville Thomson.

1934 November, Rudolf Ruedemann, “Faunas of Littoral Seaweeds and of Sargasso-seas”, in Paleozoic Plankton of North America (Geological Society of America Memoir; 2), [Washington, D.C.]: Published by the Society, →OCLC, part I, page 18:

This is the answer to the choice of the man who does not choose: now he does indeed have the sea, he plunges into it headlong, swaying among the corals of the depths, Hanged by his feet in the sargassoes that hover half-submerged beneath the ocean's opaque surface, and his green seaweed hair brushes the steep ocean beds.

1977, Italo Calvino, “The Waverer’s Tale”, in William Weaver, transl., The Castle of Crossed Destinies: Translated from the Italian, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, part 2 (The Tavern of Crossed Destinies); republished London: Vintage Books, 1997, →ISBN, page 62:

For the next five to ten years, they [turtles] will stay in the Sargasso Sea, feeding off the small sea animals that live in the floating mats of sargasso grass.

1998 February, E[laine] L[obl] Konigsburg, The View from Saturday (A Jean Karl Book), 1st Aladdin Paperbacks edition, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 55:

A brown alga, of the genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses.


sea trumpet

en-noun

sea trumpet (countable and uncountable, plural sea trumpets)

Ecklonia buccinalis, a large blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond.

(zoology, archaic) Any large marine univalve shell of the former genus Triton, such as Charonia variegata or Cymatium femorale


fucusol

(organic chemistry) An oily liquid, resembling and possibly identical with furfurol, obtained from fucus and other seaweeds.


honeyware

badderlocks, Alaria esculenta, a type of seaweed


rockweed

rockweed (countable and uncountable, plural rockweeds)

Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack.


trumpetweed

Any of the joe-pye weeds, herbaceous composite plants of genus Eutrochium, often having hollow stems, bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads, native to eastern North America.


sea thong

sea thong (countable and uncountable, plural sea thongs)

Himanthalia elongata
Himanthalia elongata#Translingual

A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia elongata) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic, with a thong-like forking process rising from a top-shaped base.


crúba préacháin

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crúba préacháin f pl (genitive crúb préacháin)

crúb préacháin (genitive)
crúba préacháin
chrúba préacháin
gcrúba préacháin


sea girdles

A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds.


gulfweed

en-noun

gulfweed (usually uncountable, plural gulfweeds)

sargassum; algae of the genus Sargassum.


sea-laces

A kind of seaweed (Chorda filum) with long blackish cord-like fronds.


sea colander

A related brown seaweed, Agarum cribrosum.


murlins

A kind of seaweed; badderlocks (Alaria esculenta)


sea otter's cabbage

Nereocystis luetkeana
Nereocystis luetkeana#Translingual

A kelp, of species Nereocystis luetkeana, that forms very large beds in which sea otters make their homes, of the north Pacific.


knotted wrack

A species of brown algae, Ascophyllum nodosum; a common seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean.


sargaço

→ Catalan: sargàs

→ English: sargasso

→ Italian: sargasso

→ Spanish: sargazo

→ Translingual: Sargassum

Apparently from a Mozarabic *šaugaçro (via metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/), from Latin salicastrum. Compare Galician chaguazo and Spanish jaguarzo.

woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides)


bladder wrack

bladder wrack (countable and uncountable, plural bladder wracks)

Fucus vesiculosus, seaweed widespread in the cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.

Nereocystis luetkeana, kelp common on the northeastern Pacific coast.


mekabu

Borrowed from Japanese メカブ (“thick wakame leaves”).

We previously reported that water extract of Mekabu, a kind of seaweed, induced apoptosis in a human breast cancer cell line.

2005, Sekiya M, Funahashi H, Tsukamura K, Imai T, Hayakawa A, Kiuchi T, Nakao A, “Intracellular signaling in the induction of apoptosis in a human breast cancer cell line by water extract of Mekabu”, in International Journal of Clinical Oncology, page 122:

Undaria pinnatifida, a sea plant native to Japan and Korea and invasive elsewhere; wakame; Asian kelp.

Mekabu is the flowering sprout of wakame. It has a strong, sweet, and creamy taste and is traditionally brewed into a tea or cooked in small amounts with other foods.

1985, Michio and Aveline Kushi, Macrobiotic Diet, page 157:

Forget crispy fried nori or pliant hijiki: mekabu comes in a coating of—there's no other word for it—goo. As one chews, it starts to expand, until suffocation starts to seem like a real possibility.

2006, Leo Carey, “Yakitori Totto; Tables for two”, in The New Yorker, page 14:

Stems or thick leaves from near the stem of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.


phaeophycean

Any member of the Phaeophyceae; a brown alga.


sargazo

Borrowed from Portuguese sargaço, ultimately from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of jaguarzo and perhaps arcazón (“osier-twig”).


listownica

listownica (nominative singular)
listownice (nominative plural)
listownicy (genitive singular)
listownic (genitive plural)
listownicy (dative singular)
listownicom (dative plural)
listownicę (accusative singular)
listownice (accusative plural)
listownicą (instrumental singular)
listownicami (instrumental plural)
listownicy (locative singular)
listownicach (locative plural)
listownico (singular vocative)
listownice (plural vocative)

laminaria (any kelp of the genus Laminaria)


morszczyn

morszczyn (nominative singular)
morszczyny (nominative plural)
morszczynu (genitive singular)
morszczynów (genitive plural)
morszczynowi (dative singular)
morszczynom (dative plural)
morszczyn (accusative singular)
morszczyny (accusative plural)
morszczynem (instrumental singular)
morszczynami (instrumental plural)
morszczynie (locative singular)
morszczynach (locative plural)
morszczynie (singular vocative)
morszczyny (plural vocative)


gummy weed

From the fact that its tubular fronds are full of sticky gum.

Splachnidium rugosum - a little brown seaweed found on intertidal rocks all around the coast of New Zealand, Australia, and subantarctic islands.


荒布

荒布 (canonical)
荒布 (canonical)
arame (romanization)

From Old Japanese 荒海藻 (arame₂), consisted from 荒 (ara, “violent, intense, rough”) + 海布 (me₂, “kelp, sea weed”). Compare 和布(にきめ) (nikime, “soft seaweeds like wakame”).

ja-r

arame (Ecklonia bicyclis, syn. Eisenia bicyclis)


paciorkowiec

paciorkowiec (nominative singular)
paciorkowce (nominative plural)
paciorkowca (genitive singular)
paciorkowców (genitive plural)
paciorkowcowi (dative singular)
paciorkowcom (dative plural)
paciorkowiec (accusative singular)
paciorkowce (accusative plural)
paciorkowcem (instrumental singular)
paciorkowcami (instrumental plural)
paciorkowcu (locative singular)
paciorkowcach (locative plural)
paciorkowcu (singular vocative)
paciorkowce (plural vocative)


kelp forest

This shark is going where many thought no sharks would go: on a daytime swim through a kelp forest to chase seals she wants to eat.

2019 April 5, JoAnna Klein, “Watch a Great White Shark Hunt Through a Kelp Forest for Its Next Meal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


広布

広布 (canonical)
広布 (canonical)
hirome (romanization)

Undaria undarioides, a species of edible kelp


brunatnica

brunatnica (nominative singular)
brunatnice (nominative plural)
brunatnicy (genitive singular)
brunatnic (genitive plural)
brunatnicy (dative singular)
brunatnicom (dative plural)
brunatnicę (accusative singular)
brunatnice (accusative plural)
brunatnicą (instrumental singular)
brunatnicami (instrumental plural)
brunatnicy (locative singular)
brunatnicach (locative plural)
brunatnico (singular vocative)
brunatnice (plural vocative)


wielkomorszcz

wielkomorszcz (nominative singular)
wielkomorszcze (nominative plural)
wielkomorszczu (genitive singular)
wielkomorszczy (genitive plural)
wielkomorszczowi (dative singular)
wielkomorszczom (dative plural)
wielkomorszcz (accusative singular)
wielkomorszcze (accusative plural)
wielkomorszczem (instrumental singular)
wielkomorszczami (instrumental plural)
wielkomorszczu (locative singular)
wielkomorszczach (locative plural)
wielkomorszczu (singular vocative)
wielkomorszcze (plural vocative)


sea whistle

A kind of seaweed whose bladders may be used by children as whistles.


dead man's rope

Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).


botilhão

botilhões (plural)
butilhão (alternative)

[bo.t͡ʃiˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو طِيلُون (ʔabū ṭīlūn). Doublet of abutilão and abutilo (“abutilon”).

bor+

أَبُو طِيلُون

doublet

bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus, an edible seaweed of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans)


모자반

Sargassum fulvellum
Wikispecies:Sargassum fulvellum


다시마

First attested in the Gugeupganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 1489, as Middle Korean 다ᄉᆞ마〮 (Yale: tàsòmá).

ko-etym-native

Saccharina japonica
Wikispecies:Saccharina japonica

kombu (Saccharina japonica, a kind of edible kelp)


golden kelp

Laminaria ochroleuca, a species of brown algae.


水雲

水雲 (canonical)
水雲 (canonical)
mozuku (romanization)

Any of various chordariaceous species of edible seaweed, including Nemacystus decipiens and Sphaerotrichia divaricata.


strunka

strunka (nominative singular)
strunki (nominative plural)
strunki (genitive singular)
strunek (genitive plural)
strunce (dative singular)
strunkom (dative plural)
strunkę (accusative singular)
strunki (accusative plural)
strunką (instrumental singular)
strunkami (instrumental plural)
strunce (locative singular)
strunkach (locative plural)
strunko (singular vocative)
strunki (plural vocative)


baniopień

baniopień (nominative singular)
baniopnie (nominative plural)
baniopnia (genitive singular)
baniopni (genitive plural)
baniopniowi (dative singular)
baniopniom (dative plural)
baniopień (accusative singular)
baniopnie (accusative plural)
baniopniem (instrumental singular)
baniopniami (instrumental plural)
baniopniu (locative singular)
baniopniach (locative plural)
baniopniu (singular vocative)
baniopnie (plural vocative)


blåstång

blåstång (indefinite nominative singular)
blåstångs (genitive indefinite singular)
blåstången (definite nominative singular)
blåstångens (definite genitive singular)


Elachista

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλᾰ́χῐστος (elắkhĭstos, “smallest; shortest; fewest”).

bor

A taxonomic genus within the family Chordariaceae – certain brown algae.


Dictyota

→ Arabic: دِكْتُوتَة (diktūta)

From dictyo- (“net”, from Ancient Greek δίκτυον (díktuon)) + -ota.

affix

from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">δίκτυον</i> (díktuon)

A taxonomic genus within the family Dictyotaceae – certain brown algae.


giant kelp

Macrocystis pyrifera, a widespread kelp.


acidweed

Any of the acid-producing, acid-storing algae of the genus Desmarestia.


Aglaozonia

From Ancient Greek ἀγλαός (aglaós, “shining”) + Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt”) + -ia.

A grouping of brown algae once thought to be a distinct genus.

(obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Cutleriaceae.

(informal) A grouping of species of genus Cutleria in their asexual phase.


knöltång

knöltång (indefinite nominative singular)
knöltångs (genitive indefinite singular)
knöltången (definite nominative singular)
knöltångens (definite genitive singular)


sargassotång

sargassotång (indefinite nominative singular)
sargassotångs (genitive indefinite singular)
sargassotången (definite nominative singular)
sargassotångens (definite genitive singular)

Compound of sargasso + tång (“seaweed”).


sea lace

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sea lace.wav

Certan algae, of species Chorda filum, bootlace weed.


Myriocladia

myrio- (“(figuratively) very many; (literally) ten thousand”) + New Latin cladus (“branch”, an adaptation of Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos)) + -ia f.

an adaptation of Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">κλάδος</i> (kládos)

A taxonomic genus within the family Chordariaceae – certain chordariaceous brown algae.


搗布

搗布 (canonical)
搗布 (canonical)
kajime (romanization)

Possibly from 搗(か)ち (kachi, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 搗(か)つ (katsu, “to pound”)) + 海布(め) (me, “seaweed”), likely due to its culinary use.


矢筈草

ja-noun

矢(や)筈(はず)草(ぐさ) or 矢筈草(ヤハズグサ) • (yahazugusa)

矢筈草 (canonical)
矢筈草 (canonical)
yahazugusa (romanization)

Literally, “arrow nock grass”, 矢筈(やはず) (yahazu, “arrow nock”) + 草(くさ) (kusa, “grass, plant”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

ja-compound

Dictyopteris latiuscula, a species of brown algae


虎の尾

虎の尾 (canonical)
tora no o (romanization)

Literally, “tiger's tail”, 虎(とら) (tora, “tiger”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 尾(お) (o, “tail”)

猩々虎の尾

猩々虎 しょうじょうとら

虎の尾羊歯 虎の尾羊歯#Japanese

synonym of 虎の尾羊歯 (tora no o shida, “Asplenium incisum”)

瑠璃虎の尾 瑠璃虎の尾#Japanese

synonym of 瑠璃虎の尾 (ruri tora no o, “azure speedwell, Veronica subsessilis”)

瑠璃虎の尾

synonym of 九蓋草 (kugaisō, “Veronicastrum japonicum”)

synonym of 天南星 (tennanshō, “plants of genus Arisaema”)

synonym of 杉蘭 (sugiran, “Phlegmariurus cryptomerinus, a species of clubmoss”)

杉蘭

synonym of 犬粟 (inuawa, “Setaria chondrachne”)

synonym of 海虎の尾 (umi tora no o, “Sargassum thunbergii”)


馬尾藻

/mä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


定孢藻

/tiŋ⁵¹ pɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tiŋ⁵¹ pɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Calque of translingual Acinetospora, as a- (not) kineto- (movement) spora (spore).


團扇藻

ㄊㄨㄢˊ ㄕㄢˋ ㄗㄠˇ

ㄊㄨㄢˊ ㄕㄢˋ ㄗㄠˇ

туаньшаньцзао

/tʰu̯än³⁵ ʂän⁵¹ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰu̯än³⁵ ʂän⁵¹ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


ламинария

ru-noun+

ламина́рия • (laminárija) f inan (genitive ламина́рии, nominative plural ламина́рии, genitive plural ламина́рий)

ламина́рия (canonical)
laminárija (romanization)
ламина́рии (genitive)
ламина́рии (nominative plural)
ламина́рий (genitive plural)
ламина́рия (nominative singular)
ламина́рии (nominative plural)
ламина́рии (genitive singular)
ламина́рий (genitive plural)
ламина́рии (dative singular)
ламина́риям (dative plural)
ламина́рию (accusative singular)
ламина́рии (accusative plural)
ламина́рией (instrumental singular)
ламина́риею (instrumental singular)
ламина́риями (instrumental plural)
ламина́рии (prepositional singular)
ламина́риях (plural prepositional)

[ɫəmʲɪˈnarʲɪjə]


Xiphophoraceae

A taxonomic family within the order Fucales – certain brown algae.


Chordariaceae

A taxonomic family within the order Ectocarpales – certain brown algae.


鹿尾菜

鹿尾菜 (canonical)
鹿尾菜 (canonical)
hijiki (romanization)


蔓藻

蔓藻 (canonical)
蔓藻 (canonical)
tsurumo (romanization)

[t͡sɨɾɯ̟mo̞]

蔓(つる) (tsuru, “vine”) + 藻(も) (mo, “alga, seaweed”)


Bifurcaria

A taxonomic genus within the family Sargassaceae – certain brown algae.


Turbinaria

Latin turbō (“tornado, wheel, whirlwind”) + -aria f.


Myriogloea

Ancient Greek μῡρῐ́ος (mūrĭ́os, “infinite; uncountable”) + Ancient Greek γλοιός (gloiós, “gum; mud; sludge”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Chordariaceae – certain brown algae.


brown seaweed

en-noun

brown seaweed (usually uncountable, plural brown seaweeds)


Seirococcus

From Ancient Greek σειρᾱ́ (seirā́, “cord, rope; chain”) + -coccus (“seed; grain”, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos)).

affix

from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">κόκκος</i> (kókkos)

A taxonomic genus within the family Seirococcaceae – certain brown algae.


دكتوتة

ar-noun

دِكْتُوتَة • (diktūta) f (plural دِكْتُوتَات (diktūtāt))

دِكْتُوتَة (canonical)
diktūta (romanization)
دِكْتُوتَات (plural)
دِكْتُوتَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الدِّكْتُوتَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
دِكْتُوتَات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الدِّكْتُوتَات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَات (construct feminine informal plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الدِّكْتُوتَاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتُ (construct feminine nominative plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الدِّكْتُوتَاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتِ (accusative construct feminine plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الدِّكْتُوتَاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)
دِكْتُوتَاتِ (construct feminine genitive plural sound-form)

(phycology) Dictyota sp. (certain brown algae)