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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[fuc(us) + –oid.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Ancient Greek φῦκος (phŷkos, "seaweed").

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  • Look at the image on the far left and far right. Where did the wall go -an outcropping???

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