Sargassum

Word SARGASSUM
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Hyphenation ‖Sar gas sum
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Definitions and meanings of "Sargassum"

What do we mean by sargassum?

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. noun

A genus of algæ including the gulf weed. noun

Any of many brown algae of the genus Sargassum; gulfweed noun

Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea noun

Any of many brown algae of the genus Sargassum; gulfweed

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The word "sargassum" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden color. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Herbert offered him a few handfuls of shell-fish and sargassum, saying, — “It is all that we have, Captain Harding.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

The reporter and his companions, after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes, sucked the sargassum, of which the taste was very tolerable. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The sargassum and the almonds of the stone-pine completed the repast, during which the engineer spoke little. ❋ Unknown (2005)

No spray or mint could mask his breath, which smelled now of kelp, now of sargassum, and at its worst, of a weathered planktonic bloom. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)

Huge, paddle-footed beasts with long necks grabbed guards like fruit from a tree and were in turn choked by sargassum blasts or poisoned by lances coated in lethal puffer-fish extract. ❋ Mcgough, Scott (2002)

There are hu-mans, like you and I, and sargassum men, like this fellow here. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

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