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Meanings of sargassum in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sargasso"
Examples for "sargasso"
1
These eddies or stagnant parts are called sargasso seas.
2
Clots of sargasso float by,-light-yellowsea-weed.
3
He and Speaker were floating upside down in an airborne Sargasso Sea.
4
There is frequent mention of the green growth of the Sargasso sea.
5
But the Sargasso Sea is the graveyard of many a fine vessel.
1
The name Sargasso comes from the Spanish word "sargazo," meaning gulfweed.
2
This gulfweed, the swimming gulfweed or berry carrier, is the chief substance making up this immense shoal.
Usage of sargassum in English
1
Herbert offered him a few handfuls of shell-fish and sargassum, saying,-
2
Between him and his goal streaked mazes of sargassum.
3
The sargassum and the almonds of the stone-pine completed the repast, during which the engineer spoke little.
4
Shots of the tiny turtle hitching a ride in the sargassum weed were recreated there as well.
5
One dump site where the sargassum is taken is in the jungle, many kilometres away from the ocean.
6
Experts say an invasion of sargassum seaweed is making some beaches in the U.S. and Mexico a serious mess.
7
She drifts at no more than five-miles-per-hour in sargassum weed, a plant that floats in the ocean, on her journey north.
8
The reporter and his companions, after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes, sucked the sargassum, of which the taste was very tolerable.
9
Franks has been studying the phenomenon and believes that the sargassum influx may be caused by factors including warmer water and an increase in nutrients.
10
Mounds of the stuff, known as sargassum, has turned the crystal clear waters synonymous with the Gulf Of Mexico into what looks like a cesspit.
11
The turtles are picked up about 30 miles (48 km) offshore in the Gulf, where they are spotted in floating patches of sargassum weed.
12
Edward Forbes supposed that the Sargassum or Gulf-weed represents the littoral sea-weeds of a now submerged continent.
13
4 It belongs to the sargassum family, and is full of air sacs.
14
The Sargassum algae releases a pungent smell as it decomposes and even before then contains biting sand fleas.
15
This sea-weed, which belongs to the order of Fucacae, of the genus Sargassum, produces, when dry, a gelatinous matter, rich and nutritious.
16
Agassiz was no less interested than other naturalists have been in the old question so long asked and still unanswered, about the Sargassum.
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