sea vegetable

English

Noun

sea vegetable (countable and uncountable, plural sea vegetables)

1. Any edible seaweed, such as agar.
   • 1979, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, The Book of Tempeh: A Super Soyfood from Indonesia:

     (a sea vegetable Laminaria)

Translations

edible seaweed

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紫菜 (zi² coi³) (laver)

  Mandarin: 紫菜 (zh) (zǐcài) (laver)

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• Korean: 김 (ko) (gim) (laver)

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• (deprecated template usage) Mandarin: 海菜 (hǎicài)
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See also

• arame
• dulse
• hijiki
• kombu
• laver
• nori

References

• 1911 encyclopedia reference for sense 1