sargassum
121sar|gas|sum — «sahr GAS uhm», noun. any one of a group of brown seaweeds that inhabit the warmer waters of the globe, especially an area of the Atlantic off southern North America; gulfweed: »It is commonly supposed that this area [the Sargasso Sea] of the… …
122Fucoid — Fu coid, a. [Fucus + oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: ({Fucoide[ae]}) which are blackish in color, and produce o[ o]spores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and… …
123Gulf — (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko lfos.] 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, [1913 Webster] He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. [1913 Webster] Between us and …
124Gulf Stream — Gulf Gulf (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko lfos.] 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, [1913 Webster] He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. [1913 Webster]… …
125Gulf weed — Gulf Gulf (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko lfos.] 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, [1913 Webster] He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. [1913 Webster]… …
126Scyllaea — Scyl*l[ae] a, n. [NL. See {Scylla}.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest. [1913 Webster] Note: In color and… …
127gulfweed — noun Etymology: Gulf of Mexico Date: 1674 any of several sargassums; especially a branching olive brown seaweed (Sargassum natans) of tropical American seas with numerous berrylike air vesicles …
128rockweed — noun Date: 1583 any of various coarse brown algae (order Fucales, especially genera Fucus, Ascophyllum, and Sargassum) growing in marine environments free floating or attached to rocks …
