Gulfweed

2 definitions found

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

  gulfweed \gulf"weed`\ (g[u^]lf"w[=e]d`), n.
     1. A brown seaweed ({Sargassum bacciferum}) with rounded
        bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical
        Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.
  
     Syn: sargassum, sargasso, {Sargassum bacciferum}.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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