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Sargasso

noun

Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea. Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum.

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... steadily westward, raising in the minds of the already fear-stricken sailors the certainty that against these head winds they could never beat back. At last they entered the vast expanse of the Sargasso Sea, six times as large as France, where they lay for a week almost becalmed, amid tangled masses of floating seaweeds. To add to their perplexities, they had passed the line of no variation, and the ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... in this ocean a vast tract of floating seaweed, called by sailors the Sargasso Sea,—covering a region as large as France,—and this has been thought by many to mark the place of a sunken island. There are also many islands, such as the Azores, which have been supposed at different times to be fragments ...

— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... pl. algae, dulse, sea lettuce, confervae, wrack; sargasso; kelp, fucus, rockweed. Associated Words: algology, algous, fucivorous, fucoid, fucoidal, fucosol, laver, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

Words linked to "Sargasso" : Sargassum bacciferum, genus Sargassum, brown algae, sargassum, Sargasso Sea, gulfweed