rockweed

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Record temperatures in Pacific Northwest in June 2021 left mussels, clams, oysters, barnacles, sea stars, rockweed and more dead along thousands of miles of coastline.

From Scientific American • Dec. 30, 2021

Next, I went after half a dozen littleneck clams that were nested into a tangle of rockweed and pebbles, as if they’d been washed up on the shore.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

Her group was about to launch a restoration project for the olive rockweed, a species endemic to Laguna found nowhere else south of Santa Barbara.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Also known as rockweed and knotted wrack, it is the most extensively harvested seaweed in Maine because of its many industrial uses, including in cosmetics and fertilizers.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2018

Their water came from a little brackish well beside the hut; their food was fish and shellfish, fresh or dried, and rockweed.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin