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gulf-weed
gulf-weed A species of sea-weed (Sargassum bacciferum of the sub-order Fucaceæ) found in the Gulf Stream, the Sargasso Sea, and elsewhere; characterized by having a number of berry-like air-vessels. The name is sometimes given to another species (S. vulgare).1674 J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 40 We met ... Oxford English Dictionary
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sargassum
sargassum (sɑːˈgæsəm) [mod.L. (G. E. Rumpf Herbarium Amboinense (1755) VI. tab. 76): see sargasso.] a. A large floating seaweed of the genus so called, found in masses in warm or temperate seas. Cf. gulf-weed, sargasso.1905, etc. [see sense b below]. 1951 G. M. Papenfuss in G. M. Smith Man. Phycol. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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sargasso
sargasso (sɑːˈgæsəʊ) Forms: 7 sargossa, -o, saragossa, 7–9 sargaso, (8 sargazo), 6– sargasso. [a. Pg. sarga{cced}o, whence Sp. sargazo, F. sargasse (mod.L. Sargassum as generic name).] a. = gulf-weed; also a mass or a species of this. Also fig., esp. in sense ‘a confused or stagnant mass’.1598 W. Ph... Oxford English Dictionary
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sea-grape
ˈsea-grape [grape n.1] 1. The glassworts, Salicornia herbacea and Salsola Kali.1578 Lyte tr. Dodoens i. lxxviii. 116 Salicornia..in English Sea grape. 1839 Baxter Brit. Phænog. Bot. IV. 307 Salicornia herbacea... Sea-grass... Sea-grape. 1855 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 288 Salsola Kali (Prickly Saltw... Oxford English Dictionary
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gulf
▪ I. gulf, n. (gʌlf) Forms: 4, 8 golf, 5–6 goulf(e, (6 gowlfe), 5–7 gulfe, (6 gulfre), 6–7 gulphe, 7–9 gulph, 7– gulf. [ad. OF. and F. golfe (sense 1; in senses 2, 3, and 4 the Fr. word is gouffre), ad. Pr., It., Sp., Pg. golfo, ad. late Gr. κόλϕος, from class. Gr. κόλπος, lit. ‘bosom’, hence ‘bay, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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sea-grass
ˈsea-grass [Cf. G. seegras, meergras.] 1. A grass which grows by the sea. Also one of various grass-like plants: (a) = sea-pink a; (b) one of the glassworts, Salicornia herbacea; (c) the grass Spartina stricta.1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. l. 509 Sea grasse... Some call it in Englishe our Ladies quishion. 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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nudibranchiate
nudiˈbranchiate, a. and n. Zool. [See nudi- and branchiate.] a. adj. Of molluscs: Having naked gills or branchiæ; belonging to the Nudibranchiata. b. n. A mollusc of this order (Ogilvie, 1882).1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 393/2 It is in the Nudibranchiate division..that the nervous centres exist in... Oxford English Dictionary
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tropic
▪ I. tropic, n. and a.1 (ˈtrɒpɪk) Forms: 4 tropik, 6 -ycque(-we), -yk(e, 6–7 -ike, -ique, -icke, 6–8 -ick, 7– tropic. [ad. L. tropicus, a. Gr. τροπικός pertaining to the ‘turning’ of the sun at the solstice, tropical (hence as n. (sc. κύκλος circle) the tropic); also, of the nature of a trope, figur... Oxford English Dictionary
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drift
▪ I. drift, n. (drɪft) [Early ME. drift (not recorded in OE.) corresp. to OFris. drift (in ur-drift), MDu., Du. drift, MHG. trift, G. trift passage for cattle, drove, ON. drift snow-drift, (Sw., Da. drift); verbal abstract from dr{iacu}fan to drive.] I. The action of driving, etc. 1. a. The act of d... Oxford English Dictionary
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sea
▪ I. sea, n. (siː) Forms: 1 sǽ, (2 seo), 2–3 sæ, 2–6 se, see, 4 (Ayenb.) ze, (seo, sse), 4–5 cee, 4–6 Sc. sey, 6 Sc. seye, sie, 2– sea. pl. 1 sǽs, sǽas, sǽ, 4 sen, 4–5 sees, 4–6 (chiefly Sc.) seis, 6 seaes, sease, (saezes), seeis, Sc. seyis, seyes, 6– seas. [Common Teut.: OE. sǽ str. masc. and fem. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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