"laminaria" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laminarias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "laminaria (plural laminarias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brown algae",
          "orig": "en:Brown algae",
          "parents": [
            "Algae",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae."
      ],
      "id": "en-laminaria-en-noun-o7B3Kk1O",
      "links": [
        [
          "Laminaria",
          "Laminaria#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "brown alga",
          "brown alga"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "any of the genus Laminaria",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "laminaria"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "any of the genus Laminaria",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "listownica"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gynaecology",
          "orig": "en:Gynaecology",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "Medicine",
            "Gender",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix."
      ],
      "id": "en-laminaria-en-noun-55yhHHPN",
      "links": [
        [
          "gynaecology",
          "gynaecology"
        ],
        [
          "dilate",
          "dilate"
        ],
        [
          "cervix",
          "cervix"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gynaecology) A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gynaecology",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "laminaria"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Brown algae"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laminarias",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "laminaria (plural laminarias)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Laminaria",
          "Laminaria#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "brown alga",
          "brown alga"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Gynaecology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gynaecology",
          "gynaecology"
        ],
        [
          "dilate",
          "dilate"
        ],
        [
          "cervix",
          "cervix"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gynaecology) A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gynaecology",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any of the genus Laminaria",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "laminaria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "any of the genus Laminaria",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "listownica"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laminaria"
}