Definition of Sargassum bacciferum

1. Noun. Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.

Exact synonyms: Gulfweed, Sargasso, Sargassum
Generic synonyms: Brown Algae
Group relationships: Genus Sargassum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sargassum Bacciferum

Sarda lineolata
Sarda sarda
Sardar
Sardegna
Sardes
Sardina
Sardina pilchardus
Sardinia
Sardinian
Sardinians
Sardinops
Sardinops caerulea
Sardis
Sarf London
Sargent
Sargon
Sargonic
Sargonid
Sargonids
Sark
Sarkese
Sarkozy
Sarkozyism
Sarlacc
Sarnoff
Saronic Gulf
Saronic Islands
Saroyan

Literary usage of Sargassum bacciferum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Popular Science News (1902)
"In my trips to the West Indies I have had the pleasure of seeing the alga giving the name to the sea, the sargassum bacciferum, also known as gulf weed, ..."

2. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The sargassum bacciferum is often found in the Mediterranean, but only as a wanderer ... The sargassum bacciferum is of a pale translucent olive colour, ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Particular interest attaches to the Gulf-weed (sargassum bacciferum, fig. 378) which forms the chief component of the floating masses of Sargassum in ..."

4. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1846)
"... altered by growing under peculiar circumstances, may it not be inferred that sargassum bacciferum,—which differs about as much from Sargassum vulgare as ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... (sargassum bacciferum of Turner and Agardh), and the Sargassum natans, or vulgare, specifically distinguished from it by these authors, as one and the ..."

6. Popular Science News (1902)
"In my trips to the West Indies I have had the pleasure of seeing the alga giving the name to the sea, the sargassum bacciferum, also known as gulf weed, ..."

7. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The sargassum bacciferum is often found in the Mediterranean, but only as a wanderer ... The sargassum bacciferum is of a pale translucent olive colour, ..."

8. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Particular interest attaches to the Gulf-weed (sargassum bacciferum, fig. 378) which forms the chief component of the floating masses of Sargassum in ..."

9. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1846)
"... altered by growing under peculiar circumstances, may it not be inferred that sargassum bacciferum,—which differs about as much from Sargassum vulgare as ..."

10. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... (sargassum bacciferum of Turner and Agardh), and the Sargassum natans, or vulgare, specifically distinguished from it by these authors, as one and the ..."

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