sargassumn.

/sɑːˈɡasəm/

Etymology: modern Latin (G. E. Rumpf Herbarium Amboinense (1755) VI. tab. 76): see sargasso n.

A large floating seaweed of the genus so called, found in masses in warm or temperate seas. Cf. gulf-weed n., sargasso n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > gulf-weed

sargasso1598

sea-lentil1633

gulf-weed1674

sea-thistle1703

tropic grape1814

sea-grape1825

sargasso weed1830

Gulf-Stream weed1884

sargassum1905

sargassum weed1928

1905 [see sargassum fish n. at Compounds].

1951 G. M. Papenfuss in G. M. Smith Man. Phycol. vii. 119 Sargassum..forms immense floating masses in the Sargasso Sea, between the West Indies and the coast of North Africa.

1969 J. M. Kingsbury Seaweeds of Cape Cod 116 The berry-like bladders..serve to identify Sargassum or ‘gulfweed’ as it is sometimes called.

Compounds

sargassum angler n. = sargassum fish n.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > [noun] > order Batrachoidiformes > toad-fish

sea-devil1634

sarpo1753

oysterfish1855

frogfish1953

sargassum angler1961

1961Sargassum angler [see sargassum weed n.].

sargassum fish n. a small toadfish, Pterophryne histrio, which lives in clusters of sargassum.

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1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xxxi. 549 (caption) Sargassum-fish.

1928 W. Beebe Beneath Tropic Seas iii. 26 An unexpected performance was suddenly staged in the jar of sargassum fish.

1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. iv. 119 The sargassum fish (Pterophryne) and the alga-resembling seadragon..are the most frequently cited examples of the extension of the skin into flaps.

sargassum weed n. = main sense.

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