wrack : Idioms & Phrases

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Bladder wrack

  • (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.
Webster 1913

Grass wrack

  • noun submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
    grass wrack; eelgrass; Zostera marina.
WordNet
  • (Bot.) eelgrass.
Webster 1913

nerve-wracking

  • adjective satellite extremely irritating to the nerves
    nerve-racking; trying; stressful.
    • nerve-racking noise
    • the stressful days before a war
    • a trying day at the office
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sea wrack

  • noun submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
    grass wrack; eelgrass; Zostera marina.
  • noun growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
    wrack.
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Sea" wrack`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) See Wrack.
Webster 1913

serrated wrack

  • noun brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
    tang; Fucus serratus.
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Wrack grass, or Grass wrack

  • (Bot.), eelgrass.
Webster 1913