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carrageen
(redirected from carragheen moss)

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car·ra·geen also car·ra·gheen  (kr-gn)
n.
See Irish moss.
[After Carragheen, a village of southeast Ireland.]
carrageen
Noun
an edible red seaweed of North America and N Europe [Carragheen, near Waterford, Ireland]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.carrageencarrageen - dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America
carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss
red algae - marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan
Chondrus, genus Chondrus - a genus of protoctist


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