Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various brown algae of the genus Fucus, which includes many of the rockweeds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A paint; a dye; especially, a paint for the face; rouge; hence, a disguise; a pretense; a sham.
- n. [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. The plants are either hermaphrodite or diœcious. The conceptacles containing the fruit are in a terminal part of the frond. Formerly all marine algæ were included in this genus, but it is now limited as above. The species of Fucus are known as rockweeds, and form the principal vegetation of the rocks exposed at low tide in northern regions.
- n. Pl. fuci (fū ′ -sī). Any fucaceous seaweed.
- To paint; dye.
Wiktionary
- n. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A paint; a dye; also, false show.
- n. (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any member of the genus Fucus
Etymologies
- From Latin, from Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)
- Latin fūcus, seaweed, orchil, from Greek phūkos. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The ingredients are typically a mixture of plants and natural ingredients, such as hoodia gordonii, a seaweed called fucus vesiculosus and guarana, a stimulant.”
“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
“The "fucus" would be for instance your Homepage since this would be something you want to promote.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There was a pot of fucus for reddening the lips and kohl for the eyes.”
“As we continue to focus they continue to fucus and nothing will change until we do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fucus’.
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Logolepsy
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Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Sounds like a naughty word...
Words that sound like you're saying something bad!!!
usufruct, puissant, afflatus, masticate, niggard, ballcock, flaccid, shittah, hortatory, cockchafer, titular, cunctation and 7 more...
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Classical Color
Colors in Classical Languages that have no exact English equivalent
caerulues, caesius, glaucus, prasinus, citrinus, russus, rufus, igneus, Erytheia, flammeus, croceus, rutilus and 16 more...
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The Hippopotamus
You'd be surprised just how many words you find in books...
anile, jessed, veridical, spinney, profligate, fustian, ataractic, suzerainty, watchet, ephebe, sillage, rapprochement and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fucus.
knitandpurl "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 Sep 3, 2012
fbharjo from Latin 'seaweed' borrowed from Greek 'phukos' Jan 2, 2011