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

This combination exists sparingly in sea-water, abundantly in many species of fucus or sea-weed, and in the kelp made from them.

From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)

Upon the walls themselves I could clearly make out the outline, as plain as a sun picture, of the fucus and the lycopods.

From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules

However, this position is not tenable, as a single branch of fucus has never been found on the Florida reef.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)

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

The paths were encumbered with seaweed and fucus, between which grovelled a whole world of crustacea.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules