sea wrack

seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.

Origin of sea wrack

First recorded in 1540–50

But all that he dredged up was sea-wrack, and weeds, and star-fish, and like rubbish.

Weird Tales from Northern Seas |Jonas Lie
It was low tide in the two bays, and the town was smelling less of peat-reek than of sea-wrack and saltness.

The Lost Pibroch |Neil Munro
The surf, too, was much discolored with sea-wrack and the nameless rubbish it is always turning over and over.

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast |Samuel Adams Drake
It exposed to view all its shingles, with a prairie of sea-wrack as far as the edge of the waves.

Bouvard and Pcuchet |Gustave Flaubert

Some sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.

A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) |David Starr Jordan

sea wrack

any of various seaweeds found on the shore, esp any of the larger species