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Seaweed vs Dulse - What's the difference?

seaweed | dulse |

As nouns the difference between seaweed and dulse

is that seaweed is any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp while dulse is a seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.

seaweed

English

(wikipedia seaweed)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.

    • Hyponyms

    * sea vegetable

    dulse

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dillisk * dilsk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 151:
    • Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse , it makes you even thirstier.’
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 90:
    • They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

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