kelp
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
14th c., from Middle English culp, culpe, kilp, but of unknown ultimate origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɛlp/, enPR: kĕlp
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlp
Noun[edit]
kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)
- Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
- Synonym: oyster grass
- The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.
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Translations[edit]
large seaweed of order Laminariales
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calcined ashes of seaweed
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Verb[edit]
kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)
- (intransitive) To gather kelp.
- 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94:
- Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.
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Further reading[edit]
- kelp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “kelp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Skeat, Walter William (1993): The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
French[edit]
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kelp m (plural kelps)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
kelp m (plural kelps)
- Alternative form of quelpo
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