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Definition of Gulfweed
1. Noun. Brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.
Generic synonyms: Brown Algae
Group relationships: Genus Sargassum
Definition of Gulfweed
1. a brownish seaweed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulfweed
Literary usage of Gulfweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"gulfweed grows attached in the West Indies, where It fruits, and Is found float-
Ing and infertile in the course of the Gulf Stream and In the Sargasso sea ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The gulfweed (Sargassum) floats in long pieces in the Atlantic Ocean and all ...
Many fabulous stories were related of this gulfweed by the mariners of the ..."
3. The Voyage of a Vice-chancellor by Arthur Everett Shipley, Bruce Rogers (1919)
"patches of seaweed—gulfweed, or sargasso (Sargassum ... William Beebe gives the
following account of the gulfweed in The Atlantic Monthly (October, 1918, p. ..."
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