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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCKWEED

rockweed  [ˈrɒkˌwiːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCKWEED

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Rockweed is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROCKWEED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rockweed in the English dictionary

The definition of rockweed in the dictionary is any of various seaweeds that grow on rocks exposed at low tide.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROCKWEED


bindweed
ˈbaɪndˌwiːd
brookweed
ˈbrʊkˌwiːd
chickweed
ˈtʃɪkˌwiːd
colicweed
ˈkɒlɪkˌwiːd
duckweed
ˈdʌkˌwiːd
hawkweed
ˈhɔːkˌwiːd
hogweed
ˈhɒɡˌwiːd
ironweed
ˈaɪənˌwiːd
knotweed
ˈnɒtˌwiːd
milkweed
ˈmɪlkˌwiːd
neckweed
ˈnɛkˌwiːd
pokeweed
ˈpəʊkˌwiːd
seaweed
ˈsiːˌwiːd
silkweed
ˈsɪlkˌwiːd
skunkweed
ˈskʌŋkˌwiːd
slinkweed
ˈslɪŋkˌwiːd
snakeweed
ˈsneɪkˌwiːd
stickweed
ˈstɪkˌwiːd
stinkweed
ˈstɪŋkˌwiːd
tumbleweed
ˈtʌmbəlˌwiːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCKWEED

rockiness
rocking
rocking chair
rocking horse
rocking stone
Rockingham
rockingly
rockless
rocklike
rockling
rocknroller
rockoon
rockrose
rocks
rockshaft
rockslide
rockwater
Rockwell
rockwork
rocky

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCKWEED

Berwick-upon-Tweed
brown seaweed
butterfly weed
butterweed
fireweed
giant hogweed
gumweed
Harris Tweed
Janjaweed
jewelweed
jimson weed
joe-pye weed
knapweed
mouse-ear chickweed
orange milkweed
pigweed
pondweed
the weed
tweed
weed

Synonyms and antonyms of rockweed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rockweed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCKWEED

Find out the translation of rockweed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rockweed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rockweed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

rockweed
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rockweed
570 millions of speakers

English

rockweed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rockweed
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

rockweed
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

rockweed
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rockweed
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

rockweed
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fucus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rockweed
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rockweed
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

rockweed
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

rockweed
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rockweed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rockweed
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

rockweed
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रक्तरंजित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

rockweed
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rockweed
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

morszczyn
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

rockweed
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rockweed
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

rockweed
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

rockweed
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

rockweed
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

rockweed
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rockweed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCKWEED»

The term «rockweed» is normally little used and occupies the 146.352 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROCKWEED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rockweed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCKWEED»

Discover the use of rockweed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rockweed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wild Vegan Cookbook: A Forager's Culinary Guide (In the ...
Rockweed looks like branching brown ribbons, each with a vein run- ning down the middle. Near the tips you'll see dis- tinctive elliptical yellow-brown flotation bladders, accounting for one of this plant's names. You can har- vest this seaweed ...
Steve Brill, 2010
2
Clambake: A History and Celebration of an American Tradition
It's all right to make the mistake of calling rockweed "seaweed," but only if you are an outsider, and only once. "You know the difference now between seaweed and rockweed?" Willy asks. "Well, rockweed has those little blister-like things, yeah ...
Kathy Neustadt, 1992
3
CONSCIOUSNESS: The BOOK
Detritus is a variant form of the rockweed and other primary food producers from which it derives. In supporting entire marine and estuarine ecosystems, a ton of rockweed in the form of detritus is worth far more than the $40 the rockweed ...
Steve Perrin, 2011
4
Connecticut Wildlife: Biodiversity, Natural History, and ...
In some situations, periwinkle grazing can inhibit the establishment of rockweed, as can competition with Irish moss (rockweed can colonize rocks and completely replace Irish moss if the latter is removed). Experiments in which grazing snails ...
Geoffrey A. Hammerson, 2004
5
Seaweeds and their Role in Globally Changing Environments
HARVEST Commercial exploitation of rockweed along the coastal areas of Nova Scotia began in the late 1950s when it was used as a raw material for manufacturing sodium alginate and “kelp” meal. Today, this seaweed is used as a source ...
Alvaro Israel, Rachel Einav, Joseph Seckbach, 2010
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Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of ...
To protect the structure of this habitat, management plans for the rockweed harvest of southern New Brunswick include restrictions on gear type and exploitation rates limited to 17% of the harvestable biomass. However, owing to physical and ...
Robert J. Anderson, Juliet Brodie, Edvar Onsøyen, 2008
7
The Rotarian
First you place a 6- to 8-inch layer of wet rockweed on the heated rocks ( rockweed is a plant that grows along the shore of the ocean). On this you place your lobsters and sweet potatoes and corn, if they are in season. These you cover with ...
8
Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island: Culture and Belonging ...
She described the many complexities of ecosystem management in terms of the lack of scientific knowledge related to such topics as the spatial relations of organisms within rockweed habitats, the degree of dependence of organisms on  ...
Joan Marshall, 2008
9
Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems
Established rockweed canopies block the recruitment of mussels and provide habitat and refuge for mussel predators (Bertness et al. 2004b, Lubchenco and Menge 1978). Established mussel beds can resist attacks by predators (Petraitis  ...
Peter Petraitis, 2013
10
A Living Bay: The Underwater World of Monterey Bay
In this photo it is surrounded by a red alga and another species of rockweed. At low tide the exposed rockweeds partially dry out — and yet, remarkably, that is when their rate of photosynthesis is greatest (Johnson et al. 1974). We have seen  ...
Lovell Langstroth, Libby Langstroth, Todd Newberry, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCKWEED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rockweed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hurdles won't stop seafood harvesters from fulfilling their mission
Rockweed in most areas have never been harvested and are in healthy concentrations. There is an evolving fishery concentrated mostly in the Downeast region ... «The Ellsworth American, Apr 15»
2
Rockweed to be discussed Thursday, April 9, during Unity College's …
UNITY — The effects of removing rockweed for commercial purposes will be the topic of the next talk in the Fishbowl colloquium series at Unity College. «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Apr 15»
3
Concern expressed over aggressive rockweed harvesting
GOULDSBORO — Residents who keep a close eye on birds in Long Mill Cove and Pond are asking state and local officials to protect rockweed from what the ... «The Ellsworth American, Feb 15»
4
Rockweed lecture in Belfast
BELFAST — Every low tide, thousands of tidy piles of olive green rockweed lay anchored at rest atop Belfast Bay's (and almost all of Maine's) myriad intertidal ... «PenBayPilot.com, Feb 15»
5
Down East Maine producer of Kelp Krunch, Dulse seaweed …
Other sea edibles include alaria, which favors turbulent areas and can be hard to reach, sugar kelp, laver, sea lettuce, bladderwrack, rockweed and Irish moss. «Lewiston Sun Journal, Nov 14»
6
New bridge to Yarmouth County mainland lifts rockweed harvesters …
SURETTES ISLAND — Arnold Garron of Sluice Point pulled up to the Morris Island Wharf on Monday with four tonnes of rockweed piled high aboard his ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Aug 14»
7
From Augusta: Rockweed Work Group appointments; Maine criminal …
The Rockweed Working Group (Working Group) consists of scientists and others with expertise in relevant issues outlined last year by the team that developed ... «PenBayPilot.com, Aug 14»
8
Maine marine resources chief names panel to determine rockweed
The working group is comprised of four scientists and conservationists and one representative of the industry that harvests rockweed. Three members previously ... «Bangor Daily News, Aug 14»
9
Panel of experts to help state marine agency set rockweed
Jake Hunkler of Beals is shown harvesting rockweed by hand on Fisherman's Island during the summer of 2013 for an experiment by Brian Beal, professor of ... «Bangor Daily News, Aug 14»
10
The Secret to Making Great-Tasting Lobster
Most seafood markets selling lobsters should have rockweed (or kelp) available for customers. It's a seaweed that's native to North America and is traditionally ... «Good Housekeeping Magazine, Jul 14»

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