Crossword-Solution: LAMINARIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laminaria | n. | A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp. |
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| type of brown seaweed | 3 answers |
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Sentences with LAMINARIA (5)
Though a species of seaweed* (* The baudreux of the Falkland Islands; Fucus giganteus, Forster; Laminaria pyrifera, Lamour.) has been seen with stems eight hundred feet long, the growth of these marine cryptogamia being extremely rapid, it is nevertheless certain, that in the latitudes we have just described, the Fuci, far from being fixed to the bottom, float in separate masses on the surface of the water.
Such penguins sitting on wet rocks with wet Fucus _growing on_ them! Such myriads more in the _sea-mist_ that hides the horizon-line--sitting on distant rocks!--and _such_ green waves--by the light of a sunbeam into one of which you see Laminaria fronds and lumps of Fucus tossing up and down.
The Maritime Sea Tang (_Laminaria digitata_) was belauded in the _Proverbial Philosophy_ of Martin Tupper:-- "Health is in the freshness of its savour; and it cumbereth the beach with wealth; Comforting the tossings of pain with its violet tinctured Essence." Tang signifies Anglo-Saxon "thatch," from Sea Weed having been formerly used instead of straw to cover the roofs of houses.
The absorbent stem power of the _Laminaria_ for taking up iodine is very large; and this element is afterwards brought out by fire in the kelp kilns of Ireland and Scotland.
Another Laminaria (_Saccharina_), with a single olive yellow semi-transparent frond, yields an abundance of sweet "mannit" when boiled and evaporated.