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Definition of "sargasso" [sar•gas•so]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sargasso" in a sentence
  • "The name "sargasso 'derived from the Portuguese word for grapes," sargaco, "because sargasso weed has little air bladders which resemble the fruit."
  • "These eddies or stagnant parts are called sargasso seas."
  • "An extensive tract of water is this, inclosed by the warm current of the Gulf Stream, and thickly covered with the wrack, called by the Spaniards "sargasso," the abundance of which so seriously impeded the progress of Columbus's vessel on his first voyage."