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Definition of Rockweeds
1. rockweed [n] - See also: rockweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockweeds
Literary usage of Rockweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"rockweeds. —• These are very common Seaweeds and are especially abundant on ...
Fucus vesiculosus, one of the commonest of the rockweeds, will serve to ..."
2. Botany for Agricultural Students by John Nathan Martin (1919)
"rockweeds. — These are very common Seaweeds and are especially abundant on ...
The rockweeds are common in fish markets, being used as a packing c FiG. ..."
3. Transcending Boundaries: Natural Resource Management from Summit to Sea edited by Rabel J. Burdge (2001)
"The ability of rockweeds to recruit (ie reproduce) may be dependent on an ...
rockweeds provide habitat and food for a variety of invertebrates, hence, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"rockweeds. These are branching, medium sized plants, growing at or near the surface
... Other common plants of this class are the rockweeds, proper (Fucus), ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The rockweeds (Fig. 9) are branching medium-sized plants, growing at or nca. ...
Other common plants arc the rockweeds, proper (Fucus), which are attached ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1909)
"Since the principal physiographic process here is erosion the battering down of
the cliffs results in the destruction of the rockweeds and succession of the ..."
7. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Iodine is obtained from the ash of certain kelps and rockweeds. These larger
brown algae are also gathered from the rocks and beaches by the peasantry of ..."
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