fucus
Americannoun
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fuci,
plural
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fucuses
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of fucus
1590–1600; < Latin < Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge
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The vine-leaved fucus presents a physiological phenomenon of the greatest interest.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
The ship seems to float in the air, and the spectator is often seized with vertigo, while he beholds through the crystalline fluid, submarine groves and beautiful shells glittering among tufts of fucus and sea-weed.
From The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Mrs. David Osborne
Upon the walls themselves I could clearly make out the outline, as plain as a sun picture, of the fucus and the lycopods.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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 William Dampier
Many of the species of the sea-wrack, or fucus, are called sea-bottles, in consequence of the stalks having round or oval vesicles or pods in them; the pod itself.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due to the density of the element which had produced them.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
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
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
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
One of the sea fuci, forming a commercial article from the Malay Isles to China, where it is made into a strong cement.
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
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