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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seaweed \Sea"weed'\, noun
1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
2. (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Alg[ae], as kelp, dulse, {Fucus}, {Ulva}, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seaweed
noun: plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "seaweed": algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack
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