Sargasso

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as gulf-weed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The gulf weed. See under gulf.
  • noun. a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A brown alga, of genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses
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  • noun. brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
  • Word Usage
    "The name "sargasso 'derived from the Portuguese word for grapes," sargaco, "because sargasso weed has little air bladders which resemble the fruit."
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    Grasso  basso  lasso  
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    gulf