sargasso
pronunciation
How to pronounce sargasso in British English:
UK [sɑ:'gæsəʊ]
How to pronounce sargasso in American English:
US [sɑ'gæsoʊ]
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- Noun:
- brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Word Origin
- sargasso (n.)
- "seaweed," 1590s, from Portuguese sargasso "seaweed," perhaps from sarga, a type of grape (on this theory, the sea plant was so called from its berry-like air sacs), or from Latin sargus, a kind of fish found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, from Greek sargos. Sargasso Sea attested from 1819.
Example
- 1. Elvers are young , translucent eels that are born in the sargasso sea and swim to freshwater lakes and ponds where they grow to adults before returning to the sea
- 2. Several hundred miles eastward from florida there is a part of the ocean called the sargasso sea .
- 3. The european eel 's migration to the sargasso sea to spawn is one of nature 's great unsolved mysteries .
- 4. The sargasso sea , where floating seaweed accumulates and legend has it that ships thus founder , is also a result of this phenomenon .
- 5. Schmidt asserted that eels must spawn in the southwestern part of the north atlantic , in the sargasso sea .