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laver

Any of several edible purplish-red seaweeds, including purple laver (P. umbilicalis). Growing on the shore and in the sea, attached to rocks and stones, laver forms thin, roundish sheets of tissue up to 20 cm/8 in across. It becomes almost black when dry. (Genus Porphyra, family Rhodophyceae.)



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