SARGASSO SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sargasso Sea mean? 

• SARGASSO SEA (noun)
  The noun SARGASSO SEA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SARGASSO SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARGASSO SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Holonyms ("Sargasso Sea" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

The Sargasso Sea is located on the western edge of the central Atlantic Ocean and named after its popular algal resident.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

The researchers compiled high-sensitivity phosphate datasets collected throughout the global ocean, including measurements Lomas collected over nearly two decades of intensive study in the Sargasso Sea.

(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)

They also examined local microbial diversity by reading the blueprints of more than 6,000 individual cells in a single teaspoon of water from the Sargasso Sea.

(Study analyzing cells' blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbes, National Science Foundation)

After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, eel larvae move more than 5,000 kilometers with the Gulf Stream until they reach the continental slope off Europe.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

Before 2011, most of the free floating Sargassum in the ocean was primarily found in patches around the Gulf of Mexico and Sargasso Sea.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Glass eels then enter estuaries, where they continue their migration upstream to freshwater until later in life (up to age 50), when, as silver eels, they navigate back to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)