Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of marine algæ, of the class Fucaceæ, having fronds attached by a disk, and branching stems with the fronds provided with a midrib and distinctly stalked air-bladders.
- noun [lowercase] Gulfweed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
brown algae of the genus Sargassum;gulfweed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That's where lots of stuff that floats ends up, including golden seaweed called sargassum, which is prime feeding ground for lots of animals, including young turtles.
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The Gulf is far from clean and the spill still poses a danger to sea turtles, but Schroeder said there have been encouraging signs in the floating seaweed patches, known as sargassum, where young turtles in the gulf live and feed.
Scientific American 2010
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"Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden color.
Marisacat 2010
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The oil spill occurred just as the two-month spawning season began, and the oil poisoned the waters just as fragile eggs and larvae were set adrift in floating sargassum grass, acres upon acres of which were destroyed by oil.
Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us Peter Lehner 2010
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The oil spill occurred just as the two-month spawning season began, and the oil poisoned the waters just as fragile eggs and larvae were set adrift in floating sargassum grass, acres upon acres of which were destroyed by oil.
Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us Peter Lehner 2010
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The oil spill occurred just as the two-month spawning season began, and the oil poisoned the waters just as fragile eggs and larvae were set adrift in floating sargassum grass, acres upon acres of which were destroyed by oil.
Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us Peter Lehner 2010
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The challenge those sea turtle hatchlings face on their way out to the sargassum weed line and an uncertain future is, as I said before, unimaginable.
Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010
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The challenge those sea turtle hatchlings face on their way out to the sargassum weed line and an uncertain future is, as I said before, unimaginable.
Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010
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From that stretch of beach they would have to swim 25 to 35 to the sargassum weed line, and once there, they could rest and eat.
Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010
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From that stretch of beach they would have to swim 25 to 35 to the sargassum weed line, and once there, they could rest and eat.
Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010
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