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Noun: laver  ley-vu(r)
  1. (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
    "The priest washed his hands in the laver before the ceremony"
     
  2. Edible red seaweeds
    "Red laver is used to make nori sheets for sushi";
    - red laver
     
  3. Seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
    "laver is sometimes used in salads or as a wrap for sushi";
    - sea lettuce
Noun: Laver
  1. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
    - Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver

Derived forms: lavers

Type of: basin, chlorophyte, green algae, red algae, tennis player

Part of: genus Porphyra, genus Ulva, Porphyra, Ulva

Encyclopedia: Laver, John