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

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fucus fuci

Are we to regard these as specimens of a fucus, perhaps the filum, or allied to it, which is known in some places by the appropriate name of sea-laces?

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but has much finer parts than that.

From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

The leaves of one of these, apparently a species of that genus of sea-weed called by botanists fucus, after being gathered, are steeped in fresh water and hung up to dry.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

It is said of some that they cover themselves with seaweed and fucus, and then are taken for islands.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

TANGLE, s. an icicle; the large fuci or sea plant.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton

Are they of the class of the ulvae, confervae, or fuci? to be welcomed as old acquaintance, or, hitherto unnoticed, to be added to the catalogue of Nature’s endless stores?

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

But till I hear this, I shall keep privately to my own opinion with the same pertinacity and, as you will think, with the same philosophical spirit with which Koenig maintains that Cheirotherium-footsteps are fuci.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

I knew the vulgar name of most of the plants that Mr. Finlayson had gathered, but now I was taught systematically, and afterwards made a herbarium, both of land plants and fuci.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

The principal employment of the poor, in this neighbourhood, is gathering the different species of fuci, commonly Manufactory of barilla. called sea-wreck, thrown up by the tide, or growing upon the breakers.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale