fucoid

American  

[fyoo-koid] / ˈfyu kɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling or related to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.

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noun

1. a fucoid seaweed.

fucoid British  

/ ˈfjuːkɔɪd /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling seaweeds of the genus Fucus

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noun

1. any seaweed of the genus Fucus

Etymology

Origin of fucoid

First recorded in 1830–40; fuc(us) + -oid

Example Sentences

Here and there a few glittering scales occur; here and there a few coprolitic patches; here and there the faint impression of a fucoid; but no organism sufficiently entire to be transferred to the bag.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

These sandstones have been called in Sweden "fucoid sandstones."

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

There can be little doubt that it is a fucoid.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

In the red quarry of Denholm Hill there occurs," says Mr. Duncan, "a stratum of soft yellowish sandstone, which contains impressions of an apparent fucoid in considerable quantity.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh