varec

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The calcined ash of coarse seaweed, used for the manufacture of soda and iodine. archaic,uncountable
    — Potash was scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and Bernard Courtois had resorted to varec imported from the Brittany and Normandy seacoasts [5].
  2. The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack. archaic,uncountable

词源

French varech; of Teutonic origin. See wrack and compare vraic.
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