fucus

[ fyoo-kuhs ]

noun

, plural fu·ci [fyoo, -sahy], fu·cus·es.

1. any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.

fucus

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of fucus¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of fucus¹

C16: from Latin: rock lichen, from Greek phukos seaweed, dye, of Semitic origin

Example Sentences

“Women chat of fucus this, and fucus that,” sighed Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

From Salon

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg