hornwrack

English

Hornwrack (Flustra foliacea)

Etymology

From horn +‎ wrack.

Noun

hornwrack (countable and uncountable, plural hornwracks)

1. (zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea.
   • 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 30:

     For the time being the tide was […] burying the hornwracks, which were easily mistaken for seaweed but which really were tiny bryozoans, or moss animals.

References

• “hornwrack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.