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Look up: Wrack

  1. wrack
    [n] - the destruction or collapse of something 2. [n] - dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Wrack
    Wrack noun A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/53

  3. Wrack
    Wrack transitive verb To rack; to torment. [ R.]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/53

  4. Wrack
    Wrack noun [ Middle English wrak wreck. See Wreck .] 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. 'A world devote to universal wrack .' Milton. 2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, esp...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/53

  5. Wrack
    Wrack transitive verb To wreck. [ Obsolete] Dryden.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/53

  6. wrack
    1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. 'A world devote to universal wrack.' (Milton) ... 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. ... 3. <botany> Coarse seaweed of any kind. ... <botany>...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. wrack
    rack noun the destruction or collapse of something; `wrack and ruin`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Wrack
    • (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction. • (v. t.) To wreck. • (n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack. • (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. • (v. t.) To rack; to torme...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. wrack
    • dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
    • the destruction or collapse of something
    • growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

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  10. wrack
    Any of the large brown seaweeds characteristic of rocky shores. The bladder wrack F. vesiculosus has narrow, branched fronds up to 1 m/3.3 ft long, with oval air bladders, usually in pairs on either side of the midrib or central vein. (Genus Fucus.)
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  11. Wrack
    (seaweed) `Wrack` is the common name for several species of seaweed in the family Fucaceae. Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Dcne. et Thur., Fucus spiralis L., Fucus vesiculosus L., Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol. and Fucus serratus L. are the most common example...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrack



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