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

• Syn: ↑bryozoan, ↑polyzoan, ↑sea mat, ↑moss animal

• Hypernyms: ↑invertebrate

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bryozoa, ↑phylum Bryozoa, ↑polyzoa

2. any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen)

• Hypernyms: ↑red algae

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noun

1. : seaweed; especially : any of various red algae (as carrageen or dulse) with rose to violet or purple gracefully elaborate fronds

2. : a branched marine bryozoan resembling moss

3.

a. : aucuba green

b. : persian green

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1. Bot. any of certain frondlike red algae.

2. Zool. a bryozoan.

[1540-50]

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sea moss noun

1. Carrageen

2. Seaweed

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Main Entry: ↑sea

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sea moss,

1. = bryozoan. (Cf. ↑bryozoan)

2. a seaweed, such as carrageen.