kelp

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

alga

fuco

gambo

muschio

phycocolloidi

prodotti derivati da alghe marine

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

varech

Seetang

Kelp

zeewier

kelp

Tang

goémon

fuco

blaaswier

sargazo

fucus

laminaire

bruinwier

varec

alga marina

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kɛlp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: 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”).