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sea tangle

noun

sea tangle

First recorded in 1860–65

I saw three kinds of sea-tangle, but could only obtain a specimen of one, resembling that which I had seen in 44° South lat.

The Seer-King saluted gravely, and gave me a draught of spirits, distilled from the fronds of a rare sea-tangle.

A Culdee thrust at him with an oar, and pinned him among the sea-tangle.

A culdee thrust at him with an oar, and pinned him among the sea-tangle.

Below the littoral we come upon the great laminarian zone, the region of waving laminaria, or sea-tangle.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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