fucus
any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
Origin of fucus
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The largest species (E. fucicola) is parasitic on fucus, growing in brush-like tufts about an inch long.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxIn the typical genus—fucus—the root is a conical disc, and the frond flat or compressed and forked.
The Sea Shore | William S. Furneauxfucus and Laminaria constitute the kelp from which iodine is obtained, and were at one time the source of the potash of commerce.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThis species, formerly called fucus nodosus, is next to fucus vesiculosus the most common rockweed.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldIt is sometimes found free, but generally attached by its extremity to eel-grass or fucus, seldom to rocks.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
British Dictionary definitions for fucus
/ (ˈfjuːkəs) /
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 (def. 2)
Origin of fucus
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