kelp

14th c., from Middle English culp, culpe, kilp, but of unknown ultimate origin.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɛlp/, enPR: kĕlp

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• Rhymes: -ɛlp

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).

   Synonym: oyster grass

   • 2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist‎, →ISSN:

     Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.

2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

• kombu

• stipe

• → French: kelp
• → German: Kelp
• → Irish: ceilp
• → Scottish Gaelic: ceilp
• → Spanish: quelpo

kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)

1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.
   • 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94:

     Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.

• kelper

• kelp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “kelp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Skeat, Walter William (1993): The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

Borrowed from English kelp.

• IPA^(key): /kɛlp/

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. kelp

   Synonyms: goémon, varech

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. Alternative form of quelpo