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Definition of Bladderwrack
1. Noun. Similar to and found with black rockweed.
2. Noun. A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure.
Generic synonyms: Rockweed
Group relationships: Genus Fucus
Definition of Bladderwrack
1. Noun. ''Fucus vesiculosus'', a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bladderwrack
Literary usage of Bladderwrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Materia Medica: The Source, Chemical and Physical Properties (1911)
"... a tea exploited for the treatment of obesity, contains senna, sambucus, rhubarb,
bladderwrack, ..."
2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The iodin of the seaweed, bladderwrack, is about 100 times as active as the iodin
of potassium iodid (Hunt and Seidell, 1910); and a diet of seaweeds ..."
3. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1891)
"... 884 Bismarck brown, 487 Bivalves, structure of ligament in, 964 • Black dot,'
Nelson's, 238 ' bladderwrack,' 556 Blanchard (R.) on osmic acid, ..."
4. Handbook of therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"bladderwrack, a form of seaweed, has likewise had a peculiar vogue. Von Noorden
believes there is an endogenous constitutional type of obesity which he ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1905)
"... recommended as an anti- fat, are chocolate-colored tablets, each containing
o.o6 Gm. of extract of bladderwrack, o.1 Gm. diy, ..."
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