Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or belonging to the order Fucales, which includes brown algae such as gulfweed and rockweed.
- noun A member of the order Fucales.
- noun A fossilized cast or impression of such an organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling seaweeds, especially those belonging to the Fucaceæ; also applied to species of Phæosporeæ, which are sometimes classed as Fucoideæ.
- Containing or characterized by impressions of fucoids or by markings resembling those made by fucoids. Also fucoidal, fucous.
- noun An alga belonging to the Fucoideæ—that is, to the Fucaceæ or to the Phæosporeæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See
fucoid , a. - adjective Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
- adjective In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus
Fucus . - adjective Of sandstone: containing seaweed-like markings.
- noun A fucoid seaweed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various algae of the family Fucaceae
- noun a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales
Etymologies
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Examples
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These are mainly casts of the giant fucoid alga Halymenites major, and shells of Inoceramus barabini.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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A splintered fissure held delicate fucoid impressions in fine script full of meaning.
The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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In the same strata with these inhabitants habitants of the early seas are found remains of fucoid or seaweed-like plants, the lowest of the vegetable tribe, which may have been the first of this kind of existences introduced into the world.
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We have at length arrived at the tall sandstone precipices of Dunnet, with their broad decaying fronts of red and yellow; but in vain may we ply hammer and chisel among them: not a scale, not a plate, not even the stain of an imperfect fucoid appears.
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Like the Lower Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and Moray, the red arenaceous strata occur in thick beds, separated from each other by bands of a grayish-colored stratified clay, on the planes of which I could trace with great distinctness ripple markings; but in vain did I explore their numerous folds for the plates, scales, and fucoid impressions which abound in the gray argillaceous beds of the shores of the Moray and Cromarty Friths.
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[46] A curious set of these, with specimens of the smooth-stemmed fucoid collected by Mr. John Miller of Thurso, -- a meritorious laborer in the geologic field, -- were exhibited at Glasgow to the Association.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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The fucoid of the Caithness flagstones threw off, as I have shown, in the alternate order, numerous ribbon-like branches or fronds; whereas the ribbon-like fronds or branches of the
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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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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I at one time supposed that the rectilinear, smooth-stemmed fucoid, already described, occurred in both series, as the gray stones have also their smooth-stemmed, rectilinear, tape-like organism; but the points of resemblance were too few and simple to justify the conclusion that they were identical, and I have since ascertained that they were entirely different plants.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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They are the remains, in all probability, of a long flexible fucoid, like those fucoids of the intertropical seas that, streaming slantwise in the tide, rise not unfrequently to the surface in fifteen and twenty fathoms water.
fbharjo commented on the word fucoid
Look at the image on the far left and far right. Where did the wall go -an outcropping???
September 24, 2011