sargassum bacciferum

3 definitions found

sargassum bacciferum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gulf \Gulf\ (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos
     bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos.]
     1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or
        basin,
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              He then surveyed
              Hell and the gulf between.            --Milton.
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              Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
                                                    --Luke xvi.
                                                    26.
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     2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking
        eddy. --Shak.
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              A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold.      --Tennyson.
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     4. (Geog.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the
        land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.
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     5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
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     Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North
        Atlantic.
  
     Note: It originates in the westward equatorial current, due
           to the trade winds, is deflected northward by Cape St.
           Roque through the Gulf of Mexico, and flows parallel to
           the coast of North America, turning eastward off the
           island of Nantucket. Its average rate of flow is said
           to be about two miles an hour. The similar Japan
           current, or Kuro-Siwo, is sometimes called the Gulf
           Stream of the Pacific.
  
     Gulf weed (Bot.), a branching seaweed (Sargassum  bacciferum
        , or sea grape), having numerous berrylike air
        vessels, -- found in the Gulf Stream, in the Sargasso Sea,
        and elsewhere.
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  gulfweed \gulf"weed`\ (g[u^]lf"w[=e]d`), n.
     1. A brown seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum) with rounded
        bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical
        Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.
  
     Syn: sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum.
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sargassum bacciferum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Sargassum bacciferum
      n 1: brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating
           masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
           [syn: gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum
           ]