sea bamboo, noun phrase

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South African DutchShow more Translation of South African Dutch zeebamboes, see seebamboes.
The giant kelp Ecklonia maxima; sea trumpet; seebamboes.
1798 S.H. Wilcocke tr. of J.S. Stavorinus’s Voy. to E. Indies I. 25On the 10th of November, we saw for the first time trumpets, or sea-bamboo, floating on the ocean.
1822 W.J. Burchell Trav. I. 28The Dutch call this plant Zee bambos (sea bamboo), and boys after cutting its stalk to a convenient length when dry, sometimes amuse themselves in blowing it as a horn or trumpet.
1913 H. Tucker Our Beautiful Peninsula 30The great, glistening, brown sea-bamboos loll and sway in the smooth swell of the luminous green shallows.
1946 L.G. Green So Few Are Free 116The place is called Bamboes Bay, because the sea bamboo is piled high on the beach after heavy gales.
1954 K.H. Barnard S. Afr. Shore-Life 76The Sea-bamboo..has a stalk reaching 20 feet in length, crowned by a bunch of strap-shaped fronds.
1973 W.E. Isaac in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. IX. 562The largest kelp of Southern Africa is the sea-trumpet or sea-bamboo (Ecklonia maxima), which commonly reaches lengths of over 6 metres.
1981 G. & M. Branch Living Shores 254One of the local kelps (‘sea bamboo’, Ecklonia maxima) produced 10000 spores per hour from each square centimetre of its fertile blades.
1982 Kilburn & Rippey Sea Shells 7The giant kelp or sea bamboos..of cold western Cape waters are well known as the habitat of the limpet.
1986 M. Van Wyk Cooking the S. Afr. Way 26Perlemoen in sea bamboo.
The giant kelp Ecklonia maxima; sea trumpet; seebamboes.
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