blue tangle

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blue tangle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tangle \Tan"gle\, n.
     1. [Cf. Icel. [thorn]["o]ngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.)
        Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria  saccharina
        . See Kelp.
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              Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the
              palms of the ocean.                   --C. Kingsley.
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     2. [From Tangle, v.] A knot of threads, or other thing,
        united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily
        disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle
        of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
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     3. pl. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to
        which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or
        other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes,
        sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the
        bottom of the sea.
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     Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry.
  
     Tangle picker (Zool.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
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