kelp

14th c., from Middle English culp, culpe, kilp, but of unknown ultimate origin.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kĕlp, IPA^(key): /kɛlp/
• Rhymes: -ɛlp

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

1. Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales).
2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

• kombu

• kelp crab
• kelp salmon

• kelper

• “kelp” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Skeat, Walter William (1993): The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. Alternative form of quelpo