ˈsea-oak
[tr. mod.L. quercus marina.]
The seaweed Fucus vesiculosus, and other seaweeds of similar appearance; bladder-wrack.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. clix. 1378 Quercus marinus. Sea Oke, or Wrake. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 598 There lives the Sea-Oak [orig. le chesne marin] in a little shell. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cvi, Sea Oke or Wrake. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc., etc. i. 92 In some of the Alga's or Sea-Oaks I have observ'd various Capsulæ impleted with a pellucid Gelly. 1796 [see tang n.3]. 1822–29 Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 358 The bibulous marine plants which..have been applied to the strumous tumours in the form of epithems, as sea-wrack (fucus vesiculosus), sea⁓tang (alga marina), and sea-oak (quercus marina). |
b. attrib.: sea-oak coralline, sertularia, the polyp Sertularia pumila.
| 1754 J. Ellis in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 632 This species I have call'd the sea-oak coralline, from its being most frequently found..adhering to the largest species of the quercus marinus. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 482 The Sea Oak Sertularia. 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 290 The Sea Oak Coralline is a common example. |