wrack grass

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Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See {Wreck}.]
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   1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. "A world
      devote to universal wrack." --Milton.
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   2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially
      plants of the genera {Fucus}, {Laminaria}, and {Zostera},
      which are most abundant on northern shores.
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   3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
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   {Wrack grass}, or {Grass wrack} (Bot.), eelgrass.
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