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kelp

[kelp] / kɛlp /
NOUN
algae
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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All this happened along the Great Southern Reef, the connected system of kelp forests and rocky reefs that rings southern Australia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Among the diverse habitats are a salt marsh that serves as a nursery for leopard sharks and bat rays and kelp forests frequented by harbor seals and wrasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The broad category also includes organisms such as kelp, slime molds, and red algae, some of which grow into large, complex structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

The varieties from Pemaquid Oyster Company started with a salty brine that teed up an oceanic kick of kelp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Normally she’d start spinning fantasies about an octopus’s garden and curtains of kelp and trout on the hassock but she’s giving me nothing.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Researchers learned that sessile invertebrates -- those that stay in one place, such as mussels and barnacles -- became more abundant during the study period, while seaweed species like kelps declined.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

You’ll also encounter a prism of marine plants such as varying kelps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

Over the course of a year, the team returned to the sites four times to measure the growth of 20 sample kelps.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 6, 2021

“If we go down to zero kelps, then trying to restore them is a huge amount of work,” she said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

The kelps are abundant, covering thousands of square miles in the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.

From General Science by Bertha M. Clark


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