Sargasso

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “SARGASSO, the Sea-Lentile.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A part of an ocean or sea characterized by floating masses of sargassos, like the Sargasso Sea.

   “[H]eld safe and sound, I'd find the South Equatorial at last, at last, and safe from all the Sargassoes, the Scillas and Charibs, I'd swoop beautifully and lightly, drifting with the sweet currents of the South down the edge of the Brazilian Highlands to the Waters of Peace.”

4. özel isim Ellipsis of Sargasso Sea.
5. isim Alternative form of sargasso (“a confused, tangled mass or situation”).

   “I cannot bear the striking of your colors, that Sargasso of / passionate forms.”