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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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
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
But till I hear this, I shall keep privately to my own opinion with the same pertinacity and, as you will think, with the same philosophical spirit with which Koenig maintains that Cheirotherium-footsteps are fuci.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
They live among reeds and long fuci, to which they cling with prehensile tails.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
TANGLE, s. an icicle; the large fuci or sea plant.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
