BLADDERWRACK

bladderwrack, black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang, Fucus vesiculosus

(noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure

bladderwrack, Ascophyllum nodosum

(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bladderwrack (usually uncountable, plural bladderwracks)

Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.

Synonyms

• black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, rock wrack

Source: Wiktionary



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CORRUGATED

(adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; “the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.

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