seaweed

See also: sea-weed

English

Etymology

sea +‎ weed

Noun

seaweed (usually uncountable, plural seaweeds)

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

Translations

marine plants and algae

Afrikaans: alg, alge
Ainu: コンボ (kombo)
Albanian: leshterik (sq) m
Arabic: عُشْب بَحْرِيّ‎ m (ʿušb 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
Catalan: algues (ca) f pl
Chamorro: ^{(please verify)} chaguan tasi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 海帶 (zh), 海带 (zh) (hǎidài), 海藻 (zh) (hǎizǎo), 昆布 (zh) (kūnbù)
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
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: alga
Irish: feamainn f
Italian: alghe (it) f
Japanese: 海藻 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can

Kannada: ಕಡಲಕಳೆ (kn) (kaḍalakaḷe), ಕಡಲಜೊಂಡು (kn) (kaḍalajoṇḍu)
Khmer: សារាយ (km) (saaraay)
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 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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