Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various brown algae of the genus Fucus, which includes many of the rockweeds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint; dye.
- noun A paint; a dye; especially, a paint for the face; rouge; hence, a disguise; a pretense; a sham.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of Fucaceæ, characterized by dichotomously branching fronds in which there is no distinction of stem and leaves, and which are provided with a midrib and often with air-bladders.
- noun Pl. fuci (fū ′ -sī). Any fucaceous seaweed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A paint; a dye; also, false show.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
alga of the genus Fucus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any member of the genus Fucus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ingredients are typically a mixture of plants and natural ingredients, such as hoodia gordonii, a seaweed called fucus vesiculosus and guarana, a stimulant.
Do Patches Help Weight Loss? Laura Johannes 2010
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With regard to fish, both species of Barbel occur; {68} the most killing bait for the large one, or Bookhar of the Assamese, is the green fucus, which is common, adhering to all the stones in these hill-streams: it is difficult to fix it on the hook.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The "fucus" would be for instance your Homepage since this would be something you want to promote.
Digital Point Forums iintense 2009
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We have focused on the big brown bat, Eptesicus fucus, a widely distributed species in North and Central America and two species of Old World fruit bats, Cynopterus sphinx and C. brachyotis.
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Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug.
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There was a pot of fucus for reddening the lips and kohl for the eyes.
My Devilish Scotsman Jen Holling 2005
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As we continue to focus they continue to fucus and nothing will change until we do.
White Alert: Angry Black Men Taking Over Cincy! Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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There is not much difference between the height of high and low water on this coast, and the lake-like illusion would have been perfect had it not been that the rocks were tinged with gold for a foot or so above the sea by a delicate species of fucus.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Such was the region the Nautilus was now visiting, a perfect meadow, a close carpet of seaweed, fucus, and tropical berries, so thick and so compact that the stem of a vessel could hardly tear its way through it.
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There were vast heaps of stone, amongst which might be traced the vague and shadowy forms of castles and temples, clothed with a world of blossoming zoophytes, and over which, instead of ivy, sea-weed and fucus threw
fbharjo commented on the word fucus
from Latin 'seaweed' borrowed from Greek 'phukos'
January 2, 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word fucus
"It looks like an enormous shell, fucus growing all over it, straight out of The Water Babies."
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, p 91 of the 50th anniversary edition
September 3, 2012