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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A part of the northern Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and the Azores. The relatively calm sea is noted for the abundance of gulfweed floating on its surface.

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  • proper noun An elongated area in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents.

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  • noun a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed

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Examples

  • Because they are on the eastern side of the Gulf Stream, in an area known as the Sargasso Sea, a fair amount of seaweed is floating about.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • Because they are on the eastern side of the Gulf Stream, in an area known as the Sargasso Sea, a fair amount of seaweed is floating about.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • On its eastern side is an area of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea, where the water temperature is typically in the 70s.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • On its eastern side is an area of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea, where the water temperature is typically in the 70s.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • This second arm — it is rather a collar than an arm — surrounds with its circles of warm water that portion of the cold, quiet, immovable ocean called the Sargasso Sea, a perfect lake in the open

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • The Sargasso Sea is a great oblong whorl in the Atlantic some four hundred miles wide and fifteen hundred long.

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • Delightful weather favored the voyagers, but when, on the tenth day out from Spain, the caravels struck into that wonderful stretch of seaweed and grass, known as the Sargasso Sea, fear lest they should run aground or soon be unable to sail in either direction took possession of the crews.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Another impinges on the Hebrides, and is no more recognizable as a current; and the third, the eastern and largest part of the divided stream, makes a wide sweep to the east and south, enclosing the Azores and the deadwater called the Sargasso Sea, then, as the African

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • This second arm -- it is rather a collar than an arm -- surrounds with its circles of warm water that portion of the cold, quiet, immovable ocean called the Sargasso Sea, a perfect lake in the open Atlantic: it takes no less than three years for the great current to pass round it.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

  • There is a certain spot in the Atlantic known by the name of the Sargasso Sea, which is neither more nor less than a huge ocean-eddy, in which immense quantities of sea-weed collect.

    The Ocean and its Wonders 1859

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