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rockweed::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | brown algae |
| Has types | black rockweed, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, tang, fucus vesiculosus, ascophyllum nodosum, fucus |
Examples of rockweed
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Young lobsters, flounder, cod and clams all depend on rockweed for cover from predators.
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From boats or the shoreline, Ms. Keene sometimes spies on rockweed crews.
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Add steamer rack or enough rockweed to keep clambakes elevated.
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That has made rockweed a hot commodity in the job-hungry Maine counties closest to the Canadian border.
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Frugal Mainers have long used rockweed to fertilize home gardens or help make and retain steam at clambakes.
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Landowners are not paid for rockweed harvested in such areas, and so far about 45 have put their names on the list.
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It is seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean, also known as rockweed, Norwegian kelp, knotted kelp, knotted wrack or egg wrack.
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To earn her living, the 51-year-old mother of three collects periwinkles, edible delicacies that live on or under rockweed.
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While lacking data that would definitively prove rockweed harvesting's negative impact on fish and other sea creatures, many believe it is inevitable.
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- Coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide
- Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common name bladderwrack, is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, also known by the common names black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, and ...
- (Rockweeds) Fucus is a genus of brown alga in the Class Phaeophyceae to be found in the intertidal zones of rocky seashores almost everywhere in the world.
- Rockweed is coarse brown algae, either free-floating or attached to rocks, growing in marine environments. Source: Katie KellerLynn
- Any of several coarse, brownish seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum that grow on rocks in coastal areas; thus seeing it on the water could be an indication of land
