ROCKWEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rockweed mean? 

• ROCKWEED (noun)
  The noun ROCKWEED has 1 sense:

1. coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide

  Familiarity information: ROCKWEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

fucus (any member of the genus Fucus)

black rockweed; bladder fucus; bladderwrack; Fucus vesiculosus; tang (a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure)

Ascophyllum nodosum; bladderwrack (similar to and found with black rockweed)

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

family Fucaceae; Fucaceae (small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds)