reoxygenate

Updated: May 20, 2025

And what is their use? And in the meanwhile, among this animal forest grows a vegetable one of delicatest sea-weeds, green and brown and crimson, whose office is, by their everlasting breath, to reoxygenate the impure water, and render it fit once more to be breathed by the higher animals who swim or creep around. Mystery of mysteries!

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore