Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sargasso"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sargasso \Sar*gas"so\, n. [Sp. sargazo seaweed.] (Bot.)
The gulf weed. See under {Gulf}.
{Sargasso Sea}, a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean
where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sargasso
n : brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating
masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
[syn: {gulfweed}, {sargassum}, {Sargassum bacciferum}]
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