black rockweed

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   a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

   Synonymsbladderwrackbladder fucustangFucus vesiculosus

   Broaderrockweed

   Part ofgenus Fucus

Questions about black rockweed

What does black rockweed mean?

black rockweed means "a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure".

What is another word for black rockweed?

Close synonyms include bladderwrack, bladder fucus, tang, Fucus vesiculosus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black rockweed a common word?

black rockweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.