laminaria
(læmɪˈnɛərɪə)
[mod.L. (J. V. F. Lamouroux Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées (1813) 20), f. L. lamina thin plate or leaf.]
A thin, flat, brown seaweed of the genus so called; also known as oar-weed or kelp. Also attrib.
| 1848 A. Henfrey tr. Schleiden's Plant xiv. 399 For its [sc. the sea's] trees stand the Laminarias, often 30 feet long, waving their broad bands. 1857 Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 28 June in Lett. (1954) II. 356 A long stretch of fine pale sand where the large roots of the laminaria were thrown up in abundance. 1883 [see laminarian a.]. 1935 J. E. Tilden Algae vi. 269 Yendo, a Japanese phycologist, gives a recipe for making kombu-mati, or ‘Laminaria roll’. 1963 C. I. Dickinson Brit. Seaweeds 82 The Laminarias are closely related to Macrocystis and Lessonia. |