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

We saw a considerable quantity of fucus natans, or gulf weed, but it generally was so far from the vessel, that I could not contrive to procure a sprig.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)

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

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

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)

It seemed to be the same kind of vegetable production that Sir Joseph Banks had formerly distinguished by the appellation of fucus giganteus.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew