sea wrack

noun

seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.

sea wrack

First recorded in 1540–50

The heaps of sea-wrack will often reward one who examines them carefully for deep-water species.

These little crustaceans exist in countless numbers under the masses of sea-wrack on the beach.

It exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.

The sea-wrack was banked up in the darkness behind, and between two stones at the mouth there were the remains of a recent fire.

Some sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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