sargassum

1. 1.

   brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea

   SynonymsgulfweedsargassoSargassum bacciferum

   Broaderbrown algae

   Part ofgenus Sargassum

Other forms of sargassum

plural

sargassums·

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.

Questions about sargassum

What does sargassum mean?

sargassum means "brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea".

How many syllables are in sargassum?

sargassum has 3 syllables: sar-gas-sum. The stress falls on "sar".

What is another word for sargassum?

Close synonyms include gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sargassum a common word?

sargassum 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.