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sea⋅ware

[see-wair]
–noun
seaweed, esp. coarse, large seaweed, used chiefly as a fertilizer.

Origin:
bef. 1000; OE sǣwār, equiv. to sea + wār seaweed (not recorded in ME)
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sea·ware   (sē'wâr')   
n.  Sea wrack used as fertilizer.

[Possibly Old English sǣwār : , sea + wār, seaweed; see wei- in Indo-European roots.]
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