seaweed

See also: sea-weed

English

Etymology

sea +‎ weed

Noun

seaweed (usually uncountable, plural seaweeds)

1. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.
   • 1915, T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

     We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

     By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown ...

Hyponyms

• sea vegetable

Derived terms

• seaweeded
• seaweedy
• crispy seaweed

Translations

marine plants and algae

• Afrikaans: alg, alge
• Ainu: コンボ (kombo)
• Albanian: leshterik (sq) m
• Arabic: عُشْب بَحْرِيّ m (ʕušb baḥriyy)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: সাগৰীয়া শেলাই (xagoria xelai)
• Asturian: ocla f
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Brunei Malay: rumpai laut
• Catalan: algues (ca) f pl
• Chamorro: ^{(please verify)} chaguan tasi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海帶／海带 (zh) (hǎidài), 海带 (zh) (hǎidài), 海藻 (zh) (hǎizǎo), 昆布 (zh) (kūnbù)

• Classical Nahuatl: ilhuicaāzacatl
• Cornish: goumman
• Czech: chaluha (cs) f
• Danish: tang c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zeewier (nl) n
• Esperanto: algo
• Estonian: adru (et)
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: tari m, alga n
• Finnish: merilevä (fi)
• French: algues (fr) f pl
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: folgo m, olga f, ouga f, gholfe m, marullo m, xebre m, argazo m, marfollo m
• Georgian: ზღვის მცენარეების (zɣvis mcenareebis)
• German: Algen (de) pl, Tang (de) m, Seetang (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: φῦκος n (phûkos)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: limu
• Hebrew: אצה (he)
• Ido: fuko (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: rumput laut
• Interlingua: alga
• Interlingue:
• Irish: feamainn f
• Italian: alghe (it) f
• Japanese: 海藻 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Kannada: ಕಡಲಕಳೆ (kn) (kaḍalakaḷe), ಕಡಲಜೊಂಡು (kn) (kaḍalajoṇḍu)
• Khmer: សារាយ (km) (saaraay)
• Latin: alga f
• Macedonian: морска трева f (morska treva)
• Malay: rumpai laut, lumut
• Manx: famlagh m, fammyragh m
• Maori: rimurimu
• Marathi: शेवाळ (śevāḷ)
• Mirandese: ouca f
• Nogai: сувот (suvot)
• Norman: vrai m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tang (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: tang m or n

• Occitan: augon
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: جلبک دریایی (jolbek-e daryâyi)
• Polish: glon (pl) m, wodorost (pl) m
• Portuguese: alga (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: ^{(please verify)} qucha yuyu
• Russian: во́доросль (ru) f (vódoroslʹ), (usually plural) во́доросли (ru) f pl (vódorosli), морска́я трава́ f (morskája travá)
• Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: feamainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морска трава f

  Roman: morska trava f

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: morska trava f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: algas (es) f pl
• Swahili: mwani
• Swedish: tång (sv) c, sjögräs n
• Tagalog: guláman, damóng-dágat
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: สาหร่ายทะเล (sǎa-ràai-tá-lee)
• Venetian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tảo biển
• Volapük: laleg
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gwymon m
• West Frisian: seewier n
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

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• Korean: 해초 (ko) (haecho)
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