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Dulse   Listen
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Dulse  n.  (Written also dillisk)  (Bot.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. "The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter."






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"Dulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... lived, a good way down the same street in which he had found the lost earring, had given him a small yellow turnip—to Gibbie nearly as welcome as an apple. A fishwife from Finstone with a creel on her back, had given him all his hands could hold of the sea-weed called dulse, presumably not from its sweetness, although it is good eating. She had added to the gift a small crab, but that he had carried to the seashore and set free, because it was alive. These, the half-cookie, the turnip, ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald



Words linked to "Dulse" :   genus Rhodymenia, Rhodymenia palmata, Rhodymenia, red algae



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