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Definition of Genus sargassum
1. Noun. A genus of protoctist.
Group relationships: Family Fucaceae, Fucaceae
Member holonyms: Gulfweed, Sargasso, Sargassum, Sargassum Bacciferum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sargassum
Literary usage of Genus sargassum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"Alga Orientales:—Descriptions of new Species belonging to the genus Sargassum.
By RK GREVILLE, LL.D. &c. [Continued from p. 102. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... it is to be observed that the genus Sargassum, now consisting of about sixty
species, is one of the most natural and most readily distinguished of the ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"With regard to the non-existence of roots in the Gulf-weed as a proof of specific
distinction, it is to be observed that the genus Sargassum, now consisting ..."
4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1830)
"In the genus Sargassum is observed a small group, as local and almost as peculiar
as that we have shown to exist in Cystoseira. This occurs in the seas of ..."
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