bladder kelp

noun

plural bladder kelps

: any of several large brown algae that have air bladders on the stipe or blade

especially : giant kelp

… a pool that had been gouged out of the rock shoreline by the relentless southern Pacific Ocean swells that hurl around huge bodies of bladder kelp …

—Warwick Stanley

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bladder kelp

• help
• skelp
• whelp
• yelp