Meaning of laminaria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of the genus Laminaria of brown algae.
2. A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix.

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“The stands of sea tangles and long-stalked laminarias are, in their way, an Atlantic counterpart of the great submarine jungles of the Pacific, where the kelps rise⟳ like⟳ giant forest trees, 150 feet from the floor of the sea to the surface.”

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