Sargassum synonyms

sär-găs'əm

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gulfweed (related)
A brown algae (genus Sargassum) with berrylike air sacs, found floating in the Gulf Stream, Pacific Ocean, etc.
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sargasso
A brown alga, of genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses
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Sargassum bacciferum
brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
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Sargassum Sentence Examples

  • In the North Atlantic this region is covered by enormous banks of gulf-weed (Sargassum bucciferum), hence the name Sargasso Sea.

  • Upper left: Sargassum muticum; bottom, right: Ulva lactuca, covering Corallina officinalis near middle of picture.

  • In Fucus vesiculosus they arise in lateral pairs; in Ascophyllum they are single and median; in Macrocystis one vesicle arises at the base of each thallus segment; in Sargassum and Halidrys the vesicles arise on special branches.

  • Some of these ancient seaweeds may have remained permanently rooted in the littoral regions, while others may have become broken off and drifted, like the recent Sargassum, at the mercy of the winds and currents, carrying the attached Graptolites into all latitudes.

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