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fucoid

[ fyoo-koid ]

adjective

  1. resembling or related to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.


noun

  1. a fucoid seaweed.

fucoid

/ ˈfjuːkɔɪd /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling seaweeds of the genus Fucus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. any seaweed of the genus Fucus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fucoid1

First recorded in 1830–40; fuc(us) + -oid
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Example Sentences

Here and there a few glittering scales occur; here and there a few coprolitic patches; here and there the faint impression of a fucoid; but no organism sufficiently entire to be transferred to the bag.

In the red quarry of Denholm Hill there occurs," says Mr. Duncan, "a stratum of soft yellowish sandstone, which contains impressions of an apparent fucoid in considerable quantity.

These sandstones have been called in Sweden "fucoid sandstones."

There occur jaws, plates, scales spines,—the remains of fucoids, too, of great size and in vast abundance.

There can be little doubt that it is a fucoid.

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