Crossword-Solution: GULFWEED
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| Clue | Answers |
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| A brown algae | 1 answer |
| Brownish seaweed floating in large masses in tropical Atlantic waters | 2 answers |
| type of brown seaweed | 3 answers |
| Water plant | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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One of the most interesting among them is the Gulfweed (Sargassum bacciferum), occupying a tract of the Atlantic extending over many degrees of latitude.
The fourth morning at breakfast-time, was a burning day, with a sky almost cloudless, and a slow sea which had the surface of its rich blue deeps shot with turquoise lights, while fields of saffron gulfweed stained it; and we had, close over our port bow, the most beautiful island in the world.
About the fourth day, from the upper deck or the ship's bow, I begin to see floating patches of seaweed--gulfweed or sargasso as it is called.
This vast acreage of vegetation, as large as the continent of Europe, lying southwest of the Azores and extending between the Canary and the Cape Verde Islands, was first reported by Columbus, and takes its name from the floating plant of which it is composed, the /Sargassum bacciferum/, a species of the order /Fucaceæ/, commonly known as gulfweed.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).