English edit

Etymology edit

drift +‎ weed

Noun edit

driftweed (countable and uncountable, plural driftweeds)

  1. Seaweed brought ashore by the wind.
    • 1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology [] :
      the high-water mark of driftweed on a sea-beach

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “driftweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)