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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



... size and most beautiful colours flourish, in the Orcadean seas, and out of 610 species of the flora in the islands we learned that 133 were seaweeds. Stevenson the great engineer wrote that the large Algae, and especially that one he named the "Fucus esculentus," grew on the rocks from self-grown seed, six feet in six months, so we could quite understand how the speed of a ship would be affected when carrying this enormous growth on the lower ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... in torrents from the spiracle, [Footnote: Spiracle: the nostril of a whale.] one mighty leap into the air, and the ocean monarch is dead. He lies just awash, gently undulated by the long, low swell, one pectoral fin slowly waving like some great stray leaf of Fucus gigantea. [Footnote: Fucus gigantea: fucus is a kind of tough seaweed.] A hole is cut through the fluke and the line secured to it. The ship, which has been working to windward during the conflict, runs down and receives the line; and in a short ...
— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker


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


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