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Definition of Oarweed
1. a type of seaweed [n -S] - See also: seaweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oarweed
Literary usage of Oarweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evenings at the microscope, or, Researches among the minuter organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1868)
"births ! what deaths ! are every hour going on in these unruffled wells, beneath
the brown shadow of the umbrageous oarweed, or over the waving slopes of ..."
2. Miscellanies (second Series) by Austin Dobson (1901)
"For the white foam whirling by, And the sharp, salt edge of the spray I For the
wharf where the black nets fry, And the wrack and the oarweed sway! ..."
3. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"... and once on the way (he's told me this often) a great strip of oarweed came
flying through the darkness and fetched him a slap on the cheek like a cold ..."
4. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"... early growing phase of certain sea- plants, such as the oarweed (Laminaria),
while the more posterior dorsal fin-rays, having short lateral branchlets, ..."
5. Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the by William Patten, Broughton Brandenburg, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation (1906)
"The wind was right in his teeth at the time, and once on the way (he's told me
this often) a great strip of oarweed came flying through the darkness and ..."
6. The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands by Frederick William Christian (1899)
"... light up the wavy masses of oarweed, tangle and sea-fan, and many a quaint
and gorgeous zoophyte spreads its delicate tentacles in the current in odd ..."
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