irish moss

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   dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America

   SynonymscarrageencarageencarragheenChondrus crispus

   Broaderred algae

   Part ofChondrus

Questions about irish moss

What does irish moss mean?

irish moss means "dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America".

What is another word for irish moss?

Close synonyms include carrageen, carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus. 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 irish moss a common word?

irish moss 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.