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Laminaria was harvested for food and 1949 yielded 40.3 metric tons of dry weight. [9] Laminaria need cold water to survive and can only live above 36° N latitude. [citation needed] In 1949, the Chinese started to commercially grow laminaria as a crop. This increased the production of dry weight to 6,200 metric tons.
Kombu is a loanword from Japanese.. In Old Japanese, edible seaweed was generically called "me" (cf. wakame, arame) and kanji such as "軍布", [3] 海藻 [4] or "和布" [5] were applied to transcribe the word.
Many countries today produce and consume laminaria products; the largest producer is China. Laminaria japonica, the important commercial seaweed, was first introduced into China in the late 1920s from Hokkaido, Japan. Yet mariculture of this alga on a very large commercial scale was realized in China only in the 1950s. Between the 1950s and the ...
ABC Chinese-English Dictionary: 1996: First Chinese dictionary collated in single-sort alphabetical order of pinyin, John DeFrancis: A Chinese-English Dictionary: 1892: Herbert Allen Giles' bestselling dictionary, 2nd ed. 1912 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language: 1815–1823: First Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionary, Robert Morrison ...
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
Laminaria is high in iodine, a nutrient crucial for proper thyroid function. In addition to promoting thyroid health, members of the family Laminariaceae can be used to induce and aid in labor. Pieces of laminaria can be put in the cervix and water added. The laminaria absorbs the water and enlarges, making the opening of the cervix larger.
Largest collection of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature, Ji Yun, 79,000 fascicles 1917: Republic of China: The Encyclopaedia Sinica: First English-language encyclopedia on China, 1 volume 1938: Republic of China: Cihai: First modern general-purpose encyclopedic dictionary, 2 volumes 1978: People's Republic of China: Encyclopedia of China
Laminaria abyssalis is native to the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Brazil. It resides in a habitat spanning over 33,000 km 2 (13,000 sq mi), from upper Espírito Santo to Mid Rio de Janeiro. It thrives in the waters of the continental shelf and intertidal zone, at depths of 40 to 120 m (130 to 390 ft). The majority of these kelp take root in ...