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sargasso

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sargasso has 1 sense

sargasso(n = noun.animal) gulfweed, sargassum, sargassum bacciferum - brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea; Array

is a kind of brown algae

is a member of genus sargassum

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sargasso, n. [Sp. sargazo seaweed.].

The gulf weed. See under Gulf. [1913 Webster]

Sargasso Sea, a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sargasso, n. (also sargassum) (pl. -os or -oes or sargassa) any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, with berry-like air-vessels, found floating in island-like masses, esp. in the Sargasso Sea of the N. Atlantic. Also called GULFWEED.

Etymology

Port. sarga{ccedil}o, of unkn. orig.

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