fucus
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Origin of fucus
1590–1600; < Latin < Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge
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It is supposed that the sea-swallow derives his materials for the edible bird's nests at Borneo from this fucus.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
Rocella tinctorum fucus, a lichen found on the rocks of the Canary and Cape de Verde groups; it yields a rich purple.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
They laboured along the shore, beside the black, sinuous line of shrivelled fucus.
From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
On the shores our nets brought in beautiful specimens of sea weed, and particularly a certain fucus, the roots of which were filled with the best mussels in the world.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
This combination exists sparingly in sea-water, abundantly in many species of fucus or sea-weed, and in the kelp made from them.
From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)
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 Lloyd, C. G.
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 Verne, Jules
TANGLE, s. an icicle; the large fuci or sea plant.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
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
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 Humboldt, Alexander von
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