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laver

laver

9.7
An edible seaweed used for food in places like Wales and Japan
  • noun
  • /ˈleɪvə/
  • UK
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  • Laver bread (laver with oatmeal, fried) with cockles or bacon is fairly traditional, but rare; I've never actually had it for breakfast in 40 years in Wales, nothing like that full English hybrid, which looks gross.

Examples

  • Before Motoda, she set out an egg, laver, vegetables boiled hard in soy sauce, and the like.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Not even looking at him, she gobbled and slurped up three or four bowls of salted laver in green tea.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • In Wales, many people enjoy laver as a topping on toast or mixed into broth.

  • The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring laver, paired with fresh vegetables.

  • At the market, she bought a bundle of laver to use in her soup recipe.

Synonyms

seaweed
vslaver
41 1.0

A plant that grows in the sea, often in long green or brown sheets

is a specific edible type rather than all marine plants
Porphyra
vslaver
  • Specialized
8.4

A red seaweed people eat, for example as dried sheets for sushi

is the common edible red algae also eaten in Wales
red laver
vslaver
8.8

Thin dark red seaweed people eat in East Asian cooking, often as sushi sheets

is the same edible algae but also commonly eaten in Wales

Compounds

red laver
8.8

Thin dark red seaweed people eat in East Asian cooking, often as sushi sheets

Surface Forms

laver singular
lavers plural

Etymology

Laver for the edible seaweed comes from old coastal names for the green seaweed used as food, especially in Wales; think of laverbread, a traditional Welsh dish made from it, to remember that laver is a seaweed people eat.