bladderwrack

See also: bladder wrack

English

Alternative forms

• bladder wrack

Etymology

From bladder +‎ wrack.

Noun

bladderwrack (usually uncountable, plural bladderwracks)

1. Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
   • 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 87:

     Someone stood on a string of bladderwrack and made it pop, and some distance away the tide was turning.

Synonyms

• black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack

Translations

Fucus vesiculosus

• Finnish: rakkolevä (fi), rakkohauru
• Swedish: blåstång (sv) c