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Webster 1913 Edition

Carrigeen

{

Car′ra-geenˊ

,

Car′ri-geenˊ

}

,

Noun.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (

Chondrus crispus

), which, when bleached, is the

Irish moss

of commerce.

[Also written

carragheen

,

carageen

.]