sargasso |
sargasso sea | (n) a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed |
gulfweed | (n) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea, Syn. Sargassum bacciferum, sargasso, sargassum |
Sargasso | n. [ Sp. sargazo seaweed. ] (Bot.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf. [ 1913 Webster ]
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