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Seaweed
Seaweed, also known as macroalgae, is the everyday term for large marine algae used as food, fertilizer, and a source of hydrocolloids like agar and carrageenan.
Seaweed farming
Seaweed farming, the marine cultivation of macroalgae such as Laminaria, Porphyra and Kappaphycus, supplies over 90% of food seaweed; Asia produces 98% of output, and the industry is valued at US$5.5-6 billion annually.
Seaweed-derived calcium
Seaweed-derived calcium (algal calcium, Aquamin) is dietary calcium from calcified red seaweed such as Lithothamnion, GRAS-notified as GRN 28 for food fortification up to 4.0 percent.
SeaWiFS
SeaWiFS, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor, was an ocean-color satellite instrument aboard OrbView-2, built by Orbital Sciences and launched in 1997, that measured global chlorophyll.
Seawise Giant
Seawise Giant, also known as Jahre Viking and Knock Nevis, was an ultra-large crude supertanker, the longest self-propelled ship ever built at 458 meters, with a deadweight of 564,763 tonnes.
SeaWorld
SeaWorld is an American marine-life theme park brand with parks in San Diego, Orlando, and San Antonio, owned by United Parks & Resorts. Known for orcas, its 2016 breeding-program end, Blackfish fallout, rescue and conservation programs.
SeaWorld Ancol
SeaWorld Ancol (Sea World Ancol), formerly SeaWorld Indonesia, is a large public aquarium in Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, North Jakarta. Opened 3 June 1994; underwater glass tunnel; renamed 2015 under PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol.
SeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando: 125-acre marine life theme park in Orlando, Florida, opened December 15, 1973, owned by United Parks & Resorts; sister parks Aquatica and Discovery Cove; over 43,000 company-wide animal rescues.
SeaWorld San Antonio
SeaWorld San Antonio is a marine zoological theme park at 10500 SeaWorld Drive in San Antonio, Texas, sister to Aquatica and Discovery Point, AZA-accredited, American Humane certified (2018), home of Texas Stingray and Rescue Jr.
SeaWorld San Diego
SeaWorld San Diego, also known as Sea World California, is a marine zoological park in San Diego, California, opened in 1964 as the first SeaWorld park.
Seax
The seax (Scramseax) is a single-edged iron knife or long knife used by Germanic peoples, especially Anglo-Saxons and Franks, from the fifth to eleventh centuries.
Seazen Group
Seazen Group, formerly Future Land Development Holdings, is a Chinese property developer founded in 1993 in Changzhou and headquartered in Shanghai, known for its Wuyue Plaza malls.
SEB AB
SEB AB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) is a Swedish corporate-focused financial group founded in 1856 by André Oscar Wallenberg, serving Sweden, the Baltic countries, Germany, and the UK.
Seb Fontaine
Seb Fontaine is a British DJ and producer, born in London in 1970, known for residencies at Cream and Ministry of Sound and BBC Radio 1.
SEBA Bank
SEBA Bank, later AMINA Bank, is a Zug-based Swiss digital-asset bank founded by former UBS executives and licensed by FINMA in August 2019 to serve institutional crypto clients.
Seba Crypto
SEBA Crypto AG, later AMINA Bank AG, was a Zug-based Swiss bank founded in 2018 by former UBS bankers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency, licensed by FINMA in 2019.
Sebaceous cyst
Sebaceous cyst, properly epidermoid or epidermal inclusion cyst, is a benign keratin-filled skin lump from a blocked hair follicle; the name is a misnomer, treated by excision with capsule, rarely turning cancerous.
Sebaceous gland
Sebaceous gland: skin exocrine gland secreting sebum (squalene, wax esters, triglycerides) by holocrine rupture of sebocytes; absent on palms and soles, dense on face; androgen-driven, central to acne and seborrhoeic dermatitis.
Sebaceous gland hyperplasia
Sebaceous gland hyperplasia (sebaceous hyperplasia) is a benign enlargement of sebaceous glands causing 1–3 mm yellow facial papules in middle-aged and older adults, sometimes confused with basal cell carcinoma; treated by lasers, cryotherapy, or isotretinoin.
Sebacic acid
Sebacic acid, also called decanedioic acid, is a naturally occurring ten-carbon dicarboxylic acid produced from castor oil, mainly in China, and used to make specialty nylons and sebacate esters.
Sebacina
Sebacina is a genus of basidiomycete fungi (Sebacinaceae, Sebacinales) forming orchid, ericoid, and ectomycorrhizas; polyphyletic, often missed by culturing, with Sebacina vermifera its best-known species complex.
Sebago Lake
Sebago Lake, also called Big Sebago, is Maine's deepest and second-largest lake in Cumberland County, a glacial water supply for over 200,000 in Greater Portland with a filtration exemption, landlocked salmon fishery, and Sebago Lake State Park.
Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, also called Sebasteion of Aphrodisias: Roman imperial cult complex in Caria, Turkey, dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors, built c. AD 20–60, with three-story porticoes and about 80 surviving relief panels.
Sebastes alutus
Sebastes alutus, Pacific ocean perch (POP), a long-lived rockfish (Scorpaenidae) of the North Pacific and Bering Sea, fished by trawl; slow-growing, to 98 years, four US stocks, none currently overfished.
Sebastes mentella
Sebastes mentella, deepwater redfish or beaked redfish (sébaste atlantique), a deep-dwelling North Atlantic rockfish (Sebastidae) from the Scotian Shelf to the Barents Sea; ovoviviparous, max age 75 years, managed in multiple stocks with ICES zero-catch advice in the Irminger Sea.
Sebastes norvegicus
Sebastes norvegicus, golden redfish (formerly misapplied Sebastes marinus), a long-lived ovoviviparous North Atlantic rockfish, 100–1,000 m depth, max 100 cm and 60 years; stocks severely depleted, zero-catch advice.
Sebastes paucispinis
Sebastes paucispinis, the bocaccio (also Pacific red snapper, salmon rockfish), is a large long-lived Pacific rockfish from Baja California to the Gulf of Alaska; its Puget Sound population is ESA-endangered while the southern stock has rebuilt.
Sebastes spp
Sebastes spp, the redfishes and rockfishes, a genus of about 110 livebearing scorpaenid fishes, mostly Pacific, with four North Atlantic commercial species (S. norvegicus, S. mentella, S. fasciatus, S. viviparus), extreme lifespans up to 200+ years, and major trawl fisheries.
Sebastia
Sebastia (Sebaste), West Bank archaeological mound northwest of Nablus, ancient Samaria, capital of the biblical Kingdom of Israel; inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List and List in Danger in 2026, State of Palestine, 79 ha.
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert is a forest ecologist and land surface modeler at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the 2008 finding that old-growth forests keep storing carbon.