Sargasso Sea

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Sar·gas·so Sea

(sär-găs′ō)

A part of the northern Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and the Azores. The relatively calm sea is noted for the abundance of gulfweed floating on its surface.

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Sargasso Sea

(Placename) a calm area of the N Atlantic, between the Caribbean and the Azores, where there is an abundance of floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum

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Sar•gas′so Sea′

(sɑrˈgæs oʊ)
n.

a relatively calm area of water in the N Atlantic, NE of the West Indies: central part covered with sargassum.

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Sargasso Sea - a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed

Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

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DECLINING eel numbers could be partly due to the weather changes and varying ocean currents according to the results of research by the University of London using a computer model together with analysis of wind driven Atlantic currents over the past 45 years Much of the eel's life is still a mystery; but the baby eels, called elvers, are born in the Sargasso Sea and take two years to migrate from there to enter European rivers.

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In contrast, after maturing for 10 to as many as 25 years in freshwater, ripe adult eels will migrate back to their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea to spawn.

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Pianizza S (2009) Double Complexity in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. Genoa: Quaderni di Palazzo Serra, 17.