MEANING
Brown seaweed, often with small gas-filled bladders, that may grow attached or form floating mats.
Use it for
describing floating brown seaweed; naming seaweed with berry-like air bladders; portraying marine life sheltering in drifting matsIdentifies a recognizable brown seaweed whose floating mats differ from submerged kelp forests. Writing functions: Brown seaweed / Floating habitat.
Words that belong together
- floating sargassum
- sargassum mats
- sargassum washed ashore
On the page
Tiny fish sheltered beneath the floating sargassum.
A long belt of sargassum had washed onto the beach.
Word forms
- Base
- sargassum
Usage notes
Usually mass noun: sargassum. Lowercase for the common seaweed name; Sargassum is capitalized as a scientific genus name. Register: neutral. Commonness: uncommon in general English; established in marine reporting (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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