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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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In the 1980s also aero-observations over Kassari Bay were made in order to discover new wracks deposited immediately on shores after storm events (H.
 
 
 
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