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Carrageen

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Noun

1. carageen, carrageen, carragheen, chondrus crispus, irish moss

dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Carrageen

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noun
an edible red seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of North America and N Europe
. Also called: Irish moss

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Carrageen

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noun
1. 
a purplish, edible red algae (Chondrus crispus) found on rocky shores of N Europe and North America; Irish moss: used in jellies, lotions, medicines, etc.
2. 
any of several similar red algae (genus Gigartina)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Carrageen

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n.
See Irish moss.

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