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fucoid

[ fyoo-koid ]

adjective

  1. resembling or related to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.


noun

  1. a fucoid seaweed.

fucoid

/ ˈːɔɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling seaweeds of the genus Fucus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. any seaweed of the genus Fucus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fucoid1

First recorded in 1830–40; fuc(us) + -oid
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Here and there a few glittering scales occur; here and there a few coprolitic patches; here and there the faint impression of a fucoid; but no organism sufficiently entire to be transferred to the bag.

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In the red quarry of Denholm Hill there occurs," says Mr. Duncan, "a stratum of soft yellowish sandstone, which contains impressions of an apparent fucoid in considerable quantity.

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These sandstones have been called in Sweden "fucoid sandstones."

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There occur jaws, plates, scales spines,—the remains of fucoids, too, of great size and in vast abundance.

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There can be little doubt that it is a fucoid.

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