fucus

American  

[fyoo-kuhs] / ˈfju kəs /

noun

fuci, plural fucuses plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fuci
  plural
• fucuses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fucus

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

Example Sentences

We served up the seed-vessels of the fucus as fish.

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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

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

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

The water came rustling up beneath the fucus as she crept along on the big stones; it returned with a quiet gurgle which made her shudder, though even that was not disagreeable.

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

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.