Definitions for kelps

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kelps kelp

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IPA: /kɛlp/

Kelps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in kelps (eklps).

Definitions for kelps

noun

1. any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
2. a bed or mass of such seaweeds.
3. the ash of these seaweeds.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn these seaweeds for their ash.

Origin of kelps

1350-1400; apparently dialectal variant of Middle English culp

Examples for kelps

Before she could draw him in he had fouled the line among the kelp.

A great old cod, red with iodine from the kelp, gave her a thrill.

Then, too, a big bed of the kelp is a great break to the sea.

If basalt be used, the proportion of kelp may be diminished.

“Tangled round some kelp before,” she told herself disappointedly.

The others, looking off toward the kelp, then see more of the birds.

A ton of kelp is obtained from 20 to 22 tons of wet sea-weed.

It is olive-green, thus simulating in color the kelp among which it lives.

kelp, or sea-weed, is used with advantage where it can be obtained.

We were "caught" and floundered about in the kelp while the water surged around us.