bladderwrack

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bladderwrack

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From bladder + wrack.

noun bladderwracks · bladder wrack

uncountable, usually Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered. Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.
Similar: black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack

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@misc{bladderwrack_2026,
  title = {bladderwrack},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bladderwrack},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}