kelp
kelp
- n large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
- Los Angeles They're cute, furry, and when they're not chasing each other around kelp forests, they're floating on their backs like miniature teddy bears.
- The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades.
- So the harvesting of California kelp, which declined after World War I, is booming again.