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carrageen

Noun

car=ra=geen

WORDNET DICTIONARY

carrageen(n = noun.animal) carageen, carragheen, chondrus crispus, irish moss - dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America;

is a kind of red algae

is a member of chondrus, genus chondrus

carrageen, n.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [1913 Webster]

carrageen, n. (also carragheen) an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the N. hemisphere. Also called Irish moss.

Etymology

orig. uncert.: perh. f. Ir. cos{aacute}in{iacute}n carraige carrageen, lit. 'little stem of the rock'