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BLADDER WRACK

Definition: BLADDER WRACK

BLADDER WRACK

1. (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle . See Wrack .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translations: BLADDER WRACK

Language Translations for "BLADDER WRACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

buletang (yellow tang), blaeretang (yellow tang), blæretang (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed, vesical forceps). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blaaswier (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), blaasjeswier (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), knotswier (yellow tang). (various references)

   

French

  

varech vésiculeux (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), varech noueux, chêne marin (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed). (various references)

   

German

  

knotiger Blasenstängel (yellow tang), Knotentang (yellow tang), echter Blasentang (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φύκον το κυστώδες (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), ασκόφυλλον το φυματώδες (yellow tang). (various references)

   

Italian

  

quercia marina (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed). (various references)

   

Manx

  

famlagh crammanagh, famlagh bolgagh (bottle wrack). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adderblay ackwray

   

Portuguese

  

botilhão vesiculoso (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), bodelha (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), sargaço (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed, gulfweed, Sargasso, sargasso weed, wrack), cavalinho-do-mar (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), carvalho marinho (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), carvalho do mar (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sargazo vejigoso (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed), fuco de nudos (yellow tang), encina de mar (black tang, bladder fucus, common black rockweed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hava keseli suyosunu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Specialty Definition: Bladder wrack

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bladder wrack
Typical classification
Kingdom:Protista
Division:Heterokontophyta
Class:Phaeophyceae
Order:Fucales
Family:Fucaceae
Genus:Fucus
Species:F. vesiculosus
Bladder wrack is a sepecies of brown alga, given the Latin name Fucus vesiculosus. It is common in intertidal zones and forms colonies, with fronds up to 2 metres in length. It has been used as a source of iodine.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bladder wrack."

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Ancestral Language Translations: BLADDER WRACK

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Ascophyllum nodosum, Fucus vesiculosus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: BLADDER WRACK

Misspellings

"BLADDER WRACK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bladderwrack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLADDER WRACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-d-e-k-l-r-r-w"

-3 letters: barracked.

-4 letters: backward, drawable, drawback.

-5 letters: abraded, abrader, addable, arcaded, awarded, awarder, barrack, barware, becrawl, bedward, blacked, blacker, bladder, bradawl, brawled, brawler, caldera, craaled, cradled, cradler, crawdad, crawled, crawler, darkled, dawdler, decadal, drawbar, drawled, drawler, kraaled, wadable, waddler, warbled, warbler, wracked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLADDER WRACK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4C 41 44 44 45 52      57 52 41 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01000001 01000100 01000100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010111 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#68 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#87 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0044 0044 0045 0052      0057 0052 0041 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3646353838395225752353745

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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