sea moss
- noun
- /si mɔs/
:
musgo marino
- Many people add sea moss to their smoothies for its nutrient content.
Examples
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Traditional Irish recipes often include sea moss as a thickening agent.
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In coastal regions, sea moss is harvested and dried for culinary use.
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She added sea moss to her smoothie.
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Many people believe sea moss has health benefits.
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In coastal regions, sea moss is harvested and dried for culinary use.
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Many people add sea moss to their smoothies for its nutrient content.
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Traditional Irish recipes often include sea moss as a thickening agent.
Synonyms
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4.3
People use small red or purple sea plants to make foods like nori and agar
A red seaweed that people eat, often dried and added to food
A red seaweed from cold northern seas that people eat
A dark purple edible seaweed from Atlantic coasts used to thicken food
A red seaweed like Irish moss that grows in the North Atlantic and is used in food
A dark purple seaweed eaten and used to make food thicker
A group of mostly marine red algae with red pigments
Red algae that live mostly in the sea and are often used to make food products like agar
A red seaweed people eat, for example as dried sheets for sushi
Thin dark red seaweed people eat in East Asian cooking, often as sushi sheets
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally clear: a B1 learner who knows 'sea' and 'moss' will naturally interpret 'sea moss' as a moss-like plant that grows in the sea (i.e., a marine plant/seaweed). Although botanically these are often algae rather than true mosses, that fine distinction does not prevent learners from deriving the correct general meaning from the constituents.
Etymology
Sea moss comes from the words sea and moss, because some red algae look like soft moss on the shore. Coastal people dried and ate it, so the name now means these edible red seaweeds.