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Sea moss   /si mɔs/   Listen
Sea moss

noun
1.
Sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding.  Synonyms: bryozoan, moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat.
2.
Any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen).





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"Sea moss" Quotes from Famous Books



... They were old, greatly older than the ancient village across the water. Ships left the village and went by them to sea gay with the bunting of a first voyage, with a fair wind, and on a fine morning; and when such a ship came back long after as an old plank bearded with sea moss, to the dunes under which it stranded the day was still the same, vestal and innocent; for they were on a voyage of greater length and import. They had buried many ships; but, as time moved to them, ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson


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