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Kelp   /kɛlp/   Listen
Kelp

noun
1.
Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds.



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kelp greenling


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"Kelp" Quotes from Famous Books



... obvious expedient of changing their locality, far less of changing their employment. They are rooted to the soil like a plant; when the work they have been accustomed to is no longer wanted, they cross their hands; and so they remain, and wither, and despair, and die. Thus when the kelp business was at an end, the Scotch Highlanders sat down in their helpless hunger, till they were swept as with a besom out of the land they cumbered. Yet what Mechi has done for his Tiptree bog on ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 - Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 • Various


Words linked to "Kelp" :   sea tangle, tang, genus Laminaria, brown algae, Laminaria, kelp greenling


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