(n.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]
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Seaweed
Definition:
(n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
(n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
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(1) A rich protein solution obtained from the seaweed was assayed for myorelaxant, anticonvulsant and analgesic activity and for its effects on spontaneous locomotor activity, amphetamine-induced hypermotility, exploratory behaviour, barbiturate-induced sleep, and body temperature.
(2) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(3) The microbial populations of the rumens of seaweed-fed and pasture-fed Orkney sheep were examined.
(4) Using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay we measured IgA, IgG, and IgM antibody titers to three MPA strains, extracts of those strains, and seaweed-derived sodium alginate, which is similar chemically to the exopolysaccharide of MPA.
(5) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(6) Fresh seaweed offered to sheep with symptoms of copper toxicity appeared to be therapeutic and to lead to a reduction in plasma Cu level.
(7) Total ciliate populations were quantitatively similar, but in the seaweed-fed animals Dasytricha ruminantium was one of the most dominant species.
(8) If I turn my head to one side, I find I can actually breathe through the seaweed.
(9) Scientists previously knew that increased carbon in the atmosphere – which is absorbed by oceans, making them more acidic – affected the behaviour of seaweed.
(10) Plain dried agar, an extract of seaweed, is low cost and low risk; it can bind bilirubin in the gut, decreasing its enterohepatic circulation, thereby decreasing serum levels.
(11) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(12) When Lisette Kreischer created the Dutch Weed Burger , a plant-based burger, she and her co-founder Mark Kulsdom didn’t just want it to be a vegan alternative to meat; they wanted to encourage people to rethink their consumption habits through the promotion of a food source that’s at the bottom of the food chain – seaweed.
(13) A sulphated heteropolysaccharide, [alpha]D +59 degrees, was isolated from a green seaweed, Spongomorpha indica, by extraction with ammonium oxalate.
(14) Here they mill flour, brew vinegar, season with seaweed, grow their own mushrooms and cure their own meat.
(15) An antileukemic activity of partially purified polysaccharide of an edible seaweed.
(16) Cytotoxic activities were found for partition fractions of 21 species of seaweed.
(17) At Mjoifjordur the stripes of seaweed follow the contours of the shoreline in bright colours – lilac, red and gold.
(18) Such a method is the use of laminaria tents made from the seaweed Laminaria japonica, which, when dried, has the capability of absorbing water and slowly expanding.
(19) Unless the ocean temperature return to normal within a month or two, the coral dies and gets taken over by a blanket of seaweed.
(20) 1,4-Dimethoxy-2-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-naphthalene [3] was the major low polarity component of extracts of this seaweed, which also contained 2,3-dihydro-2,2-bis(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-1,4-naphthalenedione [6] and 2-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-2,3-epoxy- 1,4-naphthalenedione 4,4-dimethoxy ketal [7].