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bladderwrack

/ ˈblædəˌræk /

noun

  1. any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum , esp F. vesiculosus , that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The pools swell with thong weed, sea lettuce, bladderwrack and more.

Perry writes of blue lias and saltings; gorse thickets and bladderwrack; coltsfoot and cowslips.

Not every dish worked — spider crab cooked with bladderwrack, a seaweed, in a seafood sauce seemed overwrought — but yogurt-roasted cod cheeks with oak moss, seaweed, cockles and black garlic cream had a haiku-like perfection.

What was that dark-green object that kept appearing and disappearing, half-hidden by a mass of floating brown bladderwrack?

A bloated carcass of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack.

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