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wrack

Any of the large brown seaweeds characteristic of rocky shores. The bladder wrack F. vesiculosus has narrow, branched fronds up to 1 m/3.3 ft long, with oval air bladders, usually in pairs on either side of the midrib or central vein. (Genus Fucus.)
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To see her going to wrack and ruin shocked me terribly.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The inky ragged wrack, flying before a nor'-west wind, makes you dizzy with its headlong speed that depicts the rush of the invisible air.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Tis thus, O boy, that Autumn comes, the cold Pitiless autumn of the wrack and mist, Autumn, the season of the cloudless sky, Autumn, of biting blasts, the time of blight And desolation; following the chill Stir of disaster, with a shout it leaps Upon us.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
 
 
 
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