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Definition of Sea wrack

1. Noun. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.

2. Noun. Growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp.

Medical Definition of Sea wrack

1. See Wrack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Wrack

sea urchins sea vegetable sea wall sea wasp sea water sea whip sea whip coral sea widgeon sea willow sea willows

sea wing sea wolf sea wood louse sea woodcock sea wormwood sea wrack (current term) seabag seabags seabank seabanks

seabase seabases seabeach seabeach sandwort seabeaches seabeard seabed seabeds seaberries

Literary usage of Sea wrack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
""SEA-WRACK." THE wrack was dark an' shiny where it floated in the sea, There was no one in the brown boat but only him an' me ; Him to cut the sea-wrack ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to ruin, wrack, havoc, make a rumbling and ruinous noise.—Fl. Fr. Wrack.—Sea wrack. See Wreak. To Wrap.—Whap.—Hap. ..."

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