Definition of Sargassos

1. sargasso [n] - See also: sargasso

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sargassos

sardoin
sardonic
sardonic grin
sardonically
sardonicism
sardonicisms
sardonyx
sardonyxes
sardoodledom
sards
sared
saree
sarees
sargable
sarge
sarges
sargo
sargoptes
sargos
sargoses
sargramostim
sargus
sarguses
sari
saried

Literary usage of Sargassos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1869)
"The drift mailer confined to sargassos by currents.—The water that is drifting north, on the outside of the Gulf Stream, turns, with the Gulf Stream, ..."

2. The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1874)
"The sargassos of the South Atlantic are therefore small. The formations and physical relations of sargassos will be again alluded to in Chapter XVIII. 141. ..."

3. The Discovery of America: With Some Account of Ancient America and the by John Fiske (1892)
"... on a vU la mer des sargassos, on n'oublic point un pareil spectacle. ... "La Mer des sargassos," Bulletin de ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"We see the sargassos, or seas of weed, in huge prairies spreading over areas aa large as our continents—that of the Atlantic tropic covers a space, ..."

5. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... sargassos and weeds [which] the salt water constantly at tides and storms casts upon the shore, and by the fogs that those marine places are most ..."

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