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Sargasso Sea   /sɑrgˈæsoʊ si/   Listen
Sargasso Sea

noun
1.
A vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed.





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... recover from the first bout of sea-sickness, we come upon a certain sluggish tract of ocean, uninvaded by either Gulf Stream or arctic current, but slowly stagnating in a sort of endless eddy of its own, and known to sailors and books of physical geography as the Sargasso Sea. The sargasso or floating seaweed from which it takes its poetical name is a pretty yellow rootless alga, swimming in vast quantities on the surface of the water, and covered with tiny bladder-like ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen


Words linked to "Sargasso Sea" :   sea, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean


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