wrack
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- noun
- /ræk/
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alga marina
- A thick crust of toothpaste and sputum built up on the rim of the sink in the master bedroom, and dust gathered like sea-wrack at the baseboards and around the bottom of standing lamps, table legs, and chair legs.
- sea wrack
- bladder wrack
- wrack line
Examples
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Thus, most human visitors remain unaware of the predatory army beneath their feet, seeing only an occasional individual picking over beach wrack in the vicinity of its burrow and making a beeline for shelter at the first sign of an intruder.
Academic text (1990) -
It's a wrack.
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On the beach, the wrack line lay thick with whatever flotsam the waves had driven home.
Fiction book (2002) -
The creature crawled up to the wrack at the waterline and stopped.
Fiction book (2001) -
They are holding hands, running barefoot through the sea wrack and foam.
Fiction book (1993) -
The sea palpitated, up, down, up, down, sucking noisily at bits of sea wrack.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Now, as Jake walked into the living room, he remembered her red hair, like her brother's, only so long! He remembered it loose, like sea-wrack, he thought, under him in bed, and he imagined a whole other life he hadn't had with Jenny.
Fiction book (1995) -
As we walked along the beach, we collected colorful pieces of wrack that had washed ashore.
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The children played near the wrack line, fascinated by the various marine plants scattered along the sand.
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During low tide, the wrack revealed a rich assortment of seaweed and shells waiting to be discovered.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Wrack (seaweed) comes from old words for the things the sea 'throws up' on the shore, so it names the seaweed and other bits left by the tide; think of wrack as the sea's 'wash-up'.