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

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

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

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

But art has taught her to supply furrowed deformities with ceruse boxes, and to repair a decayed complexion with an Italian fucus.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

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 Barrow, John, Sir