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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



... a light fucus, To touch you o'er withal.——Honour'd Sejanus! What act, though ne'er so strange and insolent, But that addition will at least bear ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson

... us to i; as, alumnus, alumni; androgynus, androgyni; calculus, calculi; dracunculus, dracunculi; echinus, echini; magus, magi. But such as have properly become English words, may form the plural regularly in es; as, chorus, choruses: so, apparatus, bolus, callus, circus, fetus, focus, fucus, fungus, hiatus, ignoramus, impetus, incubus, isthmus, nautilus, nucleus, prospectus, rebus, sinus, surplus. Five of these make the Latin plural like the singular; but the mere English scholar has no occasion to be told which they are. Radius makes the plural radii ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... or you will trip upon the slimy Fucus that fringes the seaward side of every rock. This is one of the few Algae that grow here in luxuriance. The slate has not the deep fissures necessary to afford shelter to the more delicate kinds; and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various

... 16th, they first came upon those immense plains of seaweed (the fucus natans), which constitute the Mar de Sargasso, and which occupy a space in the Atlantic almost equal to seven times the extent of France. The aspect of these plains greatly terrified the sailors, who thought they might be coming upon submerged ...
— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps



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



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