noun
- A common brown seaweed with air-filled bladders that help it float, found on rocky shores in the Atlantic.
Usage: Also called wrack or fucus.; Used in traditional medicine and as a source of iodine and other nutrients.
Examples
- The beach was covered with bladderwrack after the storm.
- Bladderwrack has been used in herbal remedies for centuries.
- The distinctive air bladders on bladderwrack help identify it among other seaweeds.
- Coastal ecosystems depend on bladderwrack as a food source for many marine animals.
- She collected bladderwrack samples for her marine biology project.