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- noun Plural form of
fucoid .
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Examples
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In the walls were distinct impressions of fucoids and lycopodites.
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In the walls were distinct impressions of fucoids and lycopodites.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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The fucoids, or kelp weeds, appear to have had also their representatives in such plants as
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Shropshire, previously deemed unfossiliferous, have given, to it what seem to be contemporary vegetable organisms, in a few ill-preserved fucoids.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Now, in the thickly-spread fucoids of this Highland shore we have not a
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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And should we add to the rocky tract, rich in fucoids, a submarine meadow of pale shell sand, covered by a deep green swathe of zostera, with its jointed saccharine roots and slim flowers, unfurnished with petals, we would render it perhaps more adequately representative still.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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In the water-rolled pebbles of the Conglomerate of Helmsdale and Port Gower, -- pebbles encrusted by Oolitic corals, and enclosed in a calcareous paste, containing Oolitic belemnites and astreæ, -- I have found the well marked fishes and fucoids of the Old Red Sandstone.
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.
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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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