TANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tang mean? 

• TANG (noun)
  The noun TANG has 7 senses:

1. a tart spicy quality

2. the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

3. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

4. a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

5. brown algae seaweed with serrated edges

6. any of various coarse seaweeds

7. any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria

  Familiarity information: TANG used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tart spicy quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

nip; piquance; piquancy; piquantness; tang; tanginess; zest

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

spice; spicery; spiciness (the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Tang; Tang dynasty

Hypernyms ("Tang" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

flavor; flavour; nip; relish; sapidity; savor; savour; smack; tang

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tang"):

lemon (a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons)

vanilla (a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans)

Derivation:

tangy (tasting sour like a lemon)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black rockweed; bladder fucus; bladderwrack; Fucus vesiculosus; tang

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)

Holonyms ("tang" is a member of...):

genus Fucus (type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Brown algae seaweed with serrated edges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Fucus serratus; serrated wrack; tang

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

brown algae (algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments)

Holonyms ("tang" is a member of...):

genus Fucus (type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Any of various coarse seaweeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea tang; tang

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

seaweed (plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea tangle; tang

Hypernyms ("tang" is a kind of...):

kelp (large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds)

 Context examples 

Life was not good; its taste in his mouth was without tang, and bitter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)