Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun laver

4 senses of laver

Sense 1
Laver, Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> tennis player -- (an athlete who plays tennis)

Sense 2
laver -- ((Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions)
       => basin -- (a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin")

Sense 3
red laver, laver -- (edible red seaweeds)
       => red algae -- (marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan)

Sense 4
sea lettuce, laver -- (seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds)
       => green algae, chlorophyte -- (algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water)