sargasso sea

1. 1.

   a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed

   Broadersea

   Part ofAtlantic

Questions about sargasso sea

What does sargasso sea mean?

sargasso sea means "a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed".

Is sargasso sea a common word?

sargasso sea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.