dulse

[ duhls ]
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noun
  1. a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata.

Origin of dulse

1
1540–50; Scots dial. <Scots Gaelic duileasg (by syncope, as in Scots, etc.)

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How to use dulse in a sentence

  • The seaweeds Rhodymenia palmata (dulse) and Desmarestia are plentiful; also beautiful worms, crustaceans, and starfishes.

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • Well, dulse is a purple stuffwhen you see a lot of it together, it looks as if a million toy-balloons had burst.

    Maida's Little Shop | Inez Haynes Irwin
  • There was a lift among the dulse-heaps, as though a finger stirred them and let loose their keen salt smells.

  • The Indians here have quite a variety in the way of vegetable food in dulse, seaweed, and berries.

    Jack the Young Canoeman | George Bird Grinnell
  • The carts were now full of the wet dulse, trembling like jelly as the oxen moved over the beach.

    The Heir to Grand Pr | John Frederic Herbin

British Dictionary definitions for dulse

dulse

/ (dʌls) /


noun
  1. any of several seaweeds, esp Rhodymenia palmata, that occur on rocks and have large red edible fronds

Origin of dulse

1
C17: from Old Irish duilesc seaweed

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