cuvyn.
local.
The name given in the Orkneys to a large seaweed, Laminaria digitata.
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1841 W. H. Harvey Phycol. Brit. I. Table 338.
1866 Clouston in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 365 The Cuvy growing so far out in the sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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