Sargasso Sea

American  

noun

1. a relatively calm area of water in the N Atlantic, NE of the West Indies.

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Sargasso Sea British  

noun

1. a calm area of the N Atlantic, between the Caribbean and the Azores, where there is an abundance of floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum

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Sargasso Sea

"Before 2008, there were no major blooms of macroalgae reported except for sargassum in the Sargasso Sea," Hu said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Originating in the Atlantic Ocean's Sargasso Sea, sargassum was pushed by clockwise currents into nutrient-rich waters where it has exploded in growth.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

"And we've still yet to see breeding at the Sargasso Sea."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

Rachel Carson, for her part, rejected the long-held notion that the algae had been responsible for stranding ships in the 1400s, pointing out that even in the Sargasso Sea, it wasn’t concentrated enough for that.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2023

He was sleek and snowy and shining, like an eel preparing for its nuptial journey to the Sargasso Sea, for the time of Nimue was at hand.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White