† strumblowesn.
Obsolete rare.
Some kind of submarine vegetation (called in Portuguese tromba).
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1624 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 23 [In sailing to Surat] Mett with weeds called strumblowes, a good sine of neerness [to land].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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