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fucus

[ fyoo-kuhs ]

noun

, plural fu·ci [fyoo, -sahy], fu·cus·es.
  1. any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.


fucus

/ ˈfjuːkəs /

noun

  1. any seaweed of the genus Fucus , common in the intertidal regions of many shores and typically having greenish-brown slimy fronds See also wrack 2
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fucus1

1590–1600; < Latin < Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fucus1

C16: from Latin: rock lichen, from Greek phukos seaweed, dye, of Semitic origin
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Example Sentences

The largest species (E. fucicola) is parasitic on Fucus, growing in brush-like tufts about an inch long.

In the typical genus—Fucus—the root is a conical disc, and the frond flat or compressed and forked.

Fucus and Laminaria constitute the kelp from which iodine is obtained, and were at one time the source of the potash of commerce.

This species, formerly called Fucus nodosus, is next to Fucus vesiculosus the most common rockweed.

It is sometimes found free, but generally attached by its extremity to eel-grass or Fucus, seldom to rocks.

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