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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
gulfweed is a noun meaning "brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea". It carries one recorded sense.
brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gulfweed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.