kelp

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
2. (countable, uncountable) The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

Verb

To gather kelp.

Conceptes

fucus

varec

Sinònims

wrack

brown alga

seaweed

tang

laminaria

horned pondweed

tangle

vraic

combo

sea tangle

konbu seaweed

sea tang

devil’s apron

rockweed

phycocolloids

seaweed products

black rockweed

bladder fucus

drone

moss

bladderwrack

Traduccions

varech

Kelp

Tang

kelp

Seetang

fuco

zeewier

alga

goémon

fuco

blaaswier

bruinwier

sargazo

laminaire

alga marina

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɛlp/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: culp

In summary

From Middle English culp, culpe, of uncertain origin; possibly from Old English *colba, *colfa, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō (“bulb, cob”), from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object, club”). Compare Middle High German kolbe (“clublike plant”), Old Norse kolfr (“bulb of a plant”).