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carrageen

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Noun
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car=ra=geen

CIDE DICTIONARY

carrageenn. 
     A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

carrageen, n. (also carragheen) an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the N. hemisphere. Also called Irish moss.

Etymology
orig. uncert.: perh. f. Ir. cos{aacute}in{iacute}n carraige carrageen, lit. 'little stem of the rock'

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