Home › Words › V › vraicvraic/vɹeɪk/vraic · noun — seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).vraic is pronounced /vɹeɪk/.EtymologyFrom Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.nounSeaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.e.g.“There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.” — 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.seawrack 67% match — Masses of seaweed washed ashore and in piles along a shore, predominantly algae of family Fucaceae. vs vraic →tidewrack 65% match — Seaweed and similar marine vegetation and rubbish deposited along a shore by a receding tide. vs vraic →driftweed 62% match — Seaweed brought ashore by the wind or tide. vs vraic →rockweed 59% match — Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack. vs vraic →reit 58% match — sedge; seaweed vs vraic →bellware 56% match — Synonym of seawrack. vs vraic →seave 55% match — A rush (the plant). vs vraic →crabweed 55% match — The annual herb Fatuoa villosa. vs vraic →