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)

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)