Sargassum

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sargassum \Sar*gas"sum\, n. [NL.]
     A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sargassum
       n : brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating
           masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
           [syn: {gulfweed}, {sargasso}, {Sargassum bacciferum}]