noun
- a brown seaweed that floats in large masses in warm ocean waters, especially in the Sargasso Sea
Usage: marine biology
Examples
- The ship sailed through patches of gulfweed floating on the surface.
- Gulfweed provides shelter for many small marine animals.
- The Sargasso Sea is famous for its vast mats of gulfweed.
- Scientists study gulfweed to understand ocean ecosystems.
- The brown gulfweed drifted with the current.
- Sea turtles often rest among floating gulfweed.