Chinese glue is a superior glue and varnish obtained from a species of seaweed which abounds on the chores of China. When once dried it resists the action of water. Research Chinese Glue
Swash is the movement of a thin layer of turbulent, foaming water up a beach following the breaking of a wave. As this water rushes along it carries sand and shell fragments with it, depositing them when it runs out of energy. Flat waves, which have a very strong swash, often move a lot of material on to a beach in this way. Some of the swash soaks into the beach, while the rest returns to the breaker zone as backwash; the edge of a zone of swash action is often marked by a line of seaweed and driftwood. Research Swash
The African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) is a species of manatee inhabiting the coastal waters, lagoons and river mouths of west Africa, discovered by Link in 1795. The African manatee rests most of the day and feeds at night on seaweed, marine grasses, fresh water vegetation and overhanging river plants. It is an important animal for the destruction of water hyacinths. Research African Manatee
Angler is any of an order of fishes Lophiiformes, with flattened body and broad head and jaws. Many species have small, plant-like tufts on their skin. These act as camouflage for the fish as it waits, either floating among seaweed or lying on the sea bottom, twitching the enlarged tip of the threadlike first ray of its dorsal fin to entice prey. There are over 200 species of angler fish, living in both deep and shallow water in temperate and tropical seas. The males of some species have become so small that they live as parasites on the females.
The British species, Lophius piscatorius is also from its habits and appearance called the Fishing-frog and Sea-devil. It is a remarkable fish often coasts. It is from 1 to 1.5 metres long; the head is very wide, depressed, with protuberances, and bearing long separate movable tendrils; the mouth is capacious, and armed with formidable teeth. Its voracity is extreme, and it is said to lie concealed in the mud, and attract the smaller fishes within its reach by gently waving the filamentous appendages on its head. Research Angler
Carrageen (Irish Moss) is a common British seaweed (Chondrus crispus). It is a very variable weed, with a flat branching frond usually of a deep purple-brown colour. When dried and boiled it becomes whitish in colour and yields a jelly used in food and medicine. Research Carrageen
The dugong or fork-tailed sea cow (Halicore dugong) is a herbivorous marine mammal of the order Sirenia closely related to the manatee, found in the Indian Ocean from east Africa to west Australia, discovered by Muller in 1776. It never come on land, and subsists on seaweed and sea grasses. The dugong possesses a tapering body ending in a crescent-shaped fin, and is said sometimes to attain a length of 20 feet, though generally it is about 7 or 8 feet in length. The skin is thick and smooth, with a few scattered bristles; the colour bluish above and white beneath and may be recognised from the manatee by the front of the snout strongly curved downwards, the upper lip less deeply cleft and a two-lobed tail fin. The dugong was traditionally hunted by the Malays for its flesh, which resembles young beef, and is tender and palatable. A variety was discovered in the Red Sea by Ruppell, and called Halicore tabernaculi. Research Dugong
Dulse (Rhodomenia palmata) is an edible seaweed with leathery purple leaves, found on rocky coasts. It has a reddish-brown, or purple, leathery, veinless frond, several inches long, and is found at low water adhering to the rocks. It is an important plant to the Icelanders, and is stored by them in casks to be eaten with fish. In Kamtchatka a fermented liquor is made from it. In the south of England the name is given to the Iridoea edulis, also an edible sea-weed. Research Dulse
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