fucus

American  

[fyoo-kuhs] / ˈfyu 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

Inflected Forms

noun

• fucuses
  plural
• fuci
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fucus

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

Example Sentences

It feeds on fucus and other seaweeds, and the flesh is considered good eating, and not unlike veal or, some say, pork.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Yes, that’s the gulf-weed, or sargassum, or fucus natans, as the big guns variously call it in their Latin lingo.

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry

The Cretan mantles were similar, only they were coloured with fucus, Meursius Creta III.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

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

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 Jennings, James