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Fucus   Listen
noun
Fucus  n.  (pl. fuci)  
1.
A paint; a dye; also, false show. (Obs.)
2.
(Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed. Note: Formerly most marine algae were called fuci.





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"Fucus" Quotes from Famous Books



... as suddenly as if it had been cut sharply off, and went down perpendicularly some two hundred and fifty feet to where the transparent waves broke softly, with hardly a sound, amongst the weedy rocks, all golden-brown with fucus, or running quietly over the yellow sand, but which, in a storm, came thundering in, like huge banks of water, to smite the face of the cliff, fall back and fret, and churn up the weed into balls of froth, which flew up, and were carried by the ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Fucus" :   genus Fucus, rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus, bladder fucus


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