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countable and uncountable, plural kelps
Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales). quotations examples
Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.
2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist
The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture. examples
third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped
(intransitive) To gather kelp. quotations examples
Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.
2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94