seaweed

See also: sea-weed

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ weed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːwiːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsiwid/

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• Hyphenation: sea‧weed

Noun

Seaweed.

seaweed (usually uncountable, plural seaweeds)

1. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.
   • 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 16:

     We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

     The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

2. (by extension) Any of various fresh water plants and algae.
   • 1995, Dan McCosh, “Aliens among us”, in Popular Science, page 94:

     With light penetrating to the lake bottom, beds of seaweed flourished where little had grown before.

Hyponyms

• sea vegetable

Derived terms

• seaweed dermatitis
• seaweeded
• seaweedy
• crispy seaweed

Translations

marine plants and algae

• Afrikaans: alg, alge
• Ainu: コンボ (kombo)
• Albanian: leshterik (sq) m
• Aleut: qahngus
• Amharic: የባህር አረም (yäbahr ʾäräm)
• Arabic: عُشْب بَحْرِيّ m (ʕušb baḥriyy)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ծովային ջրիմուռ (covayin ǰrimuṙ)
• Assamese: সাগৰীয়া শেলাই (xagoria xelai)
• Asturian: ocla f
• Aymara: llachu
• Azerbaijani: yosun (az)
• Basque: alga (eu)
• Belarusian: марскі́я во́дарасці (marskíja vódarasci)
• Bengali: সামুদ্রিক শৈবাল (śamudrik śōibal)
• Breton: felu m
• Brunei Malay: rumpai laut
• Bulgarian: водорасли (bg) n pl (vodorasli)
• Burmese: ပင်လယ်ရေမှော် (panglairehmau)
• Catalan: algues (ca) f pl
• Cebuano: sagbot sa dagat
• Chamorro: ^{(please verify)} chaguan tasi
• Chichewa: udzu wa m'nyanja
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海うみ帶たい／海うみ带 (zh) (hǎidài), 海藻かいそう (zh) (hǎizǎo), 昆布こぶ (zh) (kūnbù)

• Cornish: goumman
• Corsican: alga
• Czech: chaluha (cs) f
• Danish: tang c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dogri: समुद्री शैवाल (samudrī śaivāl)
• Dutch: zeewier (nl) n
• Esperanto: algo
• Estonian: adru (et)
• Ewe: ƒumegbewo
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: tari m, alga n
• Finnish: merilevä (fi)
• French: algues (fr) marines (fr) f pl
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: olga f, ouca (gl) f, golfe (gl) m, argazo m, alga (gl) f
• Georgian: ზღვის მცენარეების (zɣvis mcenareebis)
• German: Algen (de) pl, Tang (de) m, Seetang (de) m
• Greek: φύκι (el) n (fýki)

  Ancient: φふぁいῦκος n (phûkos)

• Gujarati: સીવીડ (sīvīḍ)
• Haitian Creole: alg
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: limu
• Hebrew: אצה (he)
• Hungarian: hínár (hu)
• Icelandic: þang
• Ido: fuko (io)
• Igbo: ahihia mmiri
• Indonesian: rumput laut
• Interlingua: alga
• Irish: feamainn f
• Italian: alghe (it) f
• Japanese: 海藻かいそう (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
• Javanese: rumput laut
• Kannada: ಕಡಲಕಳೆ (kn) (kaḍalakaḷe), ಕಡಲಜೊಂಡು (kn) (kaḍalajoṇḍu)
• Kazakh: теңіз балдыры (teñız baldyry)
• Khmer: សារាយ (km) (saaraay)
• Krio: si-sid we dɛn kɔl si-sid
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جۆگەلە دەریاییەکان (cogele deryayyekan)

  Northern Kurdish: kefz (ku)

• Kyrgyz: деңиз балыры (deŋiz balırı)
• Lao: ສາຫຼ່າຍທະເລ (sā lāi tha lē)
• Latin: alga f
• Latvian: jūraszāles
• Lithuanian: jūros dumblių
• Luganda: omuddo gw’omu nnyanja
• Macedonian: морска трева f (morska treva)
• Maithili: समुद्री शैवाल (samudrī śaivāl)
• Malay: rumpai laut, lumut (ms)
• Malayalam: കടൽപ്പായൽ (kaṭalppāyal)
• Maltese: alka tal-baħar
• Manx: famlagh m, fammyragh m
• Maori: rimurimu, rimurapa moana
• Marathi: शेवाळ (śevāḷ)
• Mirandese: ouca f
• Mongolian: далайн ургамал (dalajn urgamal)
• Nepali: समुद्री शैवाल (samudrī śaiwāl)
• Nogai: сувот (suvot)
• Norman: vrai m
• Northern Sotho: lehola la lewatle
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tang (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: tang m or n

• Occitan: algas f pl
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Oromo: biqiltuu galaanaa
• Persian: جلبک دریایی (jolbek-e daryâyi), جلوزغ (jolvazaɣ)
• Polish: glon (pl) m, wodorost (pl) m
• Portuguese: alga (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸੀਵੀਡ (sīvīḍ)
• Quechua: ^{(please verify)} qucha yuyu
• Romanian: alge marine
• Russian: во́доросль (ru) f (vódoroslʹ), (usually plural) во́доросли (ru) f pl (vódorosli), морска́я трава́ f (morskája travá)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ibyatsi byo mu nyanja
• Samoan: limu sami
• Sanskrit: समुद्री शैवालः (samudrī śaivālaḥ)
• Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: feamainn f, feamad f (Scalpay, Uig), todhar m (North Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морска трава f

  Roman: morska trava f

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: morska trava f, haloga f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: algas (es) f pl
• Swahili: mwani (sw)
• Swedish: tång (sv) c, sjögräs (sv) n
• Tagalog: damong-dagat
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: สาหร่ายทะเล (sǎa-ràai-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz yosunu (tr)
• Venetan: ałega
• Vietnamese: tảo biển, rong biển
• Volapük: laleg
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gwymon m
• West Frisian: seewier n
• Yiddish: ים־גראָז n (yam-groz)

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• Korean: 해초 (ko) (haecho)
• Yurok: cegeɂl