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UK
/sˈɑːɡəʃəm/
]
NOUN
- brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
How To Use sargassum In A Sentence
- There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
- Certain ancient strata, known as the Devonian black shale, occupying the Ohio valley and the neighbouring parts of North America to the east and north of that basin, appear to be accumulations which were made beneath an ancient Sargassum sea. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
- Patches of sargassum weed can be fish magnets
- ObjectiveTo explore the effect of the extract of Sargassum fusiforme ( ESF ) on blood glucose in diabetes mice.
- Hatchlings that successfully make the trek from their nests to the relative safety of the gulf and ocean waters find sanctuary from predators in large, floating beds of sargassum seaweed far offshore.
- Most photosynthetic life (life that uses light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into food), such as phytoplankton and floating sargassum, is found in this region.
- In their recent studies on species of Sargassum that were traditionally used in Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of cancer, Chapter 7
- It is well known that large floating objects like buoys, logs or sargassum weed often attract large numbers of fish.
- They are also frequently found in floating sargassum weed, which suggests that they are common offshore.
- Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden color. Marisacat