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View synonyms for gulfweed
gulfweed
[ guhlf-weed ]
noun
- a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.
- any seaweed of the same genus.
gulfweed
/ ˈɡʌlfˌwiːd /
noun
- any brown seaweed of the genus Sargassum, esp S. bacciferum, having air bladders and forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters, esp the Gulf Stream Also calledsargassosargasso weed
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Some sea-horses cling by their tails to gulfweed or sea-wrack.
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Sea-lentil is a name sometimes applied to the gulfweed Sargassum vulgare.
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