fucus

American  

[fyoo-kuhs] / ˈfyu kəs /

noun

plural

fuci, fucuses

1. any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.

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fucus British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of fucus

1590–1600; < Latin < Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge

Example Sentences

The marks of the last tide were plainly visible high up on the rugged rock-face, the last tide having left every ledge covered with washed-up fucus and bladder-wrack, speckled with white shells and sandy patches.

From Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story by Nash, J.

Sea′-belt, the sweet fucus plant; Sea′-bird, any marine bird; Sea′-bis′cuit, ship-biscuit; Sea′-blubb′er, a jelly-fish; Sea′-board, the border or shore of the sea; Sea′-boat, a vessel considered with reference to her behaviour in bad weather.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but has much finer parts than that.

From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William

It feeds on fucus and other seaweeds, and the flesh is considered good eating, and not unlike veal or, some say, pork.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

They laboured along the shore, beside the black, sinuous line of shrivelled fucus.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)