Meaning & use

sargasso

noun·Advanced

A brown seaweed that floats in large mats on the surface of warm ocean waters.

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Thick patches of sargasso drifted across the calm surface of the Sargasso Sea.

Sea turtles use floating sargasso as shelter and a source of food during their early years.

A note on using this word

Sargasso is capitalized when naming the Sargasso Sea, but lowercase when referring generally to the floating seaweed itself.

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