单词 | rock-weed |
释义 | rock-weed [rock n.1] A seaweed, esp. one of the genera Fucus and Sargassum, growing on tide-washed rocks.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 29 Rocke-weede, adrift, or flotes. 1627― Seaman's Gram. ix. 43 Rockweed doth grow by the shore, and is a signe of land. 1664Phil. Trans. I. 13 Upon which..Rock-weed or Sea-tangle did grow a hand long. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 113 A great bed of floating rock-weeds. 1819Warden United States I. 366 The coast [of Maine] furnishes a marine vegetable called rock-weed. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 171 He took the sprays of rock-weed in his hands and pulled them slowly to him. |

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