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Definition of Dulse
1. Noun. Coarse edible red seaweed.
Generic synonyms: Red Algae
Group relationships: Genus Rhodymenia, Rhodymenia
Definition of Dulse
1. n. A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]
Definition of Dulse
1. Noun. A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (''Palmaria palmata'') which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dulse
1. an edible seaweed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dulse
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dulse
Literary usage of Dulse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account of by Albert Hastings Markham (1874)
"Another favourite edible of our worthy captain is a seaweed called " dulse," *
which is picked up in large quantities on the beach at Droughty Ferry. ..."
2. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... first dulse of Normandy. AD 935. Robert, first duke of Normandy, departed this
life in a good old age, having appointed his son William, a most handsome ..."
3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"See dulse. Dulce do. ... note over the lung when it trivet a sound and a resistance,
as when percussing over wood. Du long and Pe tit s law. That the dulse ..."