English Dictionary

sargasso

IPA（発音記号）

/sɑːˈɡæsəʊ/

名詞

比喩的用法

A brown alga, of the genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses. / (figuratively) Also Sargasso: a confused, tangled mass or situation.

日本語の意味

サルガッソウ藻の一種で、褐色の海藻が浮遊する大きな塊を形成する / 比喩的に、入り組んだ混乱した状態や複雑な物事

After the storm, the fishermen's nets were clogged with sargasso drifting in the bay.

嵐の後、漁師たちの網は湾に漂うホンダワラ属の褐藻の塊で詰まった。

意味（1）

A brown alga, of the genus Sargassum, that forms large, floating masses.

SARGASSO, the Sea-Lentile.]

意味（2）

(figuratively) Also Sargasso: a confused, tangled mass or situation.

Afghanistan is a sargasso of wrecks from earlier civilizations; buried in its earth are hordes of Greek coins, Aramaic inscriptions, Saljuq mosques, and Mazdakite fire temples, flaking away in their own dust, forgotten in valleys where the local villagers carry away their bricks for cattle folds.

意味（3）

(biology, oceanography) A part of an ocean or sea characterized by floating masses of sargassos, like the Sargasso Sea.

Of Sargassos or Weedy Seas. … [T]he most remarkable of them all, is that in the North Atlantic. [Christopher] Columbus passed through it on his first voyage of discovery to America. […] The sargassos of the southern hemisphere are not so well marked as this, nor are they as rich in drift or floating matter.

sargassos （ plural ）

sargassoes （ plural ）