fucus vesiculosus

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   a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

   Synonymsbladderwrackblack rockweedbladder fucustang

   Broaderrockweed

   Part ofgenus Fucus

Questions about fucus vesiculosus

What does fucus vesiculosus mean?

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

What is another word for fucus vesiculosus?

Close synonyms include bladderwrack, black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang. 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 fucus vesiculosus a common word?

fucus vesiculosus 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.