fucus
noun
any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
fuci
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pluralof fucus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The name is from the habits, "those of a fucus rather than a fungus," a far-fetched comparison, for my impression is there are no fuci that are carbonous, or have much resemblance to this plant.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
I knew the vulgar name of most of the plants that Mr. Finlayson had gathered, but now I was taught systematically, and afterwards made a herbarium, both of land plants and fuci.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
Some naturalists are of opinion that they are vestiges of the eggs of mollusca: but they appear to be more like fragments of fuci.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
The female fish deposits her eggs in numerous clusters, on the stalks of fuci, on corals, about the projecting sides of rocks, or on any other convenient substances.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. by Various
Ascending to the next group of rocks, we find the traces of life become more abundant, the number of species extended, and important additions made in certain vestiges of fuci, or sea-plants, and of fishes.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
