rockweed

English Thesaurus

1. coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	brown algae,
definition	:	algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	fucus,
definition	:	any member of the genus Fucus (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	black rockweed, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, fucus vesiculosus, tang,
definition	:	a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	ascophyllum nodosum, bladderwrack,
definition	:	similar to and found with black rockweed (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family fucaceae, fucaceae,
definition	:	small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds (noun.animal)