bull kelp

English

Noun

bull kelp (uncountable)

  1. The brown alga Nereocystis luetkeana.
    • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 8:
      A tiny sparkle caught Ruth’s eye, a small glint of refracted sunlight angling out from beneath a massive tangle of drying bull kelp, which the sea had heaved up onto the sand at full tide.
    • 2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:
      The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

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