See pipeweed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. 'We have heaps of it, […] It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt.'",
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"ref": "[1792, [Jeremy Belknap], “Letter I. Original State of the Forest.—The Adventures of Walter Pipeweed, and Cecilius Peterson.”, in The Foresters, an American Tale: […], Boston, Mass.: […] I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:",
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"text": "He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. 'We have heaps of it, […] It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt.'",
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"text": "U. diaphana. Transparent Ulva—Pipe-weed. Occasionally cast up on the beach at Seaton. Some authors call this substance, Alcyonium gelatinosum, and others Alcyonium diaphanum. It has much the appearance of an animal production.",
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"ref": "1903, Henry Scherren, chapter IV, in A Popular Natural History of the Lower Animals (Invertebrates), London: Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 101; quoted in Gordon Dalgliesh, “Notes on the Whirlgig Beetle (Gyrinus natator)”, in W[illiam] L[ucas] Distant, editor, The Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, volume XVI (4th series), number 182 (number 848 overall), London: West, Newman, & Co., […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 15 February 1912, →OCLC, page 70:",
"text": "The larva [of Gyrinus] is not well known, and not often met with by collectors. I have taken examples in the River Ant, not far from North Walsham. […] Both were found in pipe-weed (Entermorpha intestinalis), and it may be that this is the usual habitat.",
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