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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding;
[syn: bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, moss animal]

2. any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sea moss \Sea" moss`\ (?; 115). (Zool.) Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sea moss n 1: sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding [syn: bryozoan, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss, moss animal] 2: any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen)