Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fucoid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fucoid \Fu"coid\, a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.)
(a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: ({Fucoide[ae]})
which are blackish in color, and produce o["o]spores
which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the
conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed
({Sargassum}) are fucoid in character.
(b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature
of seaweeds.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fucoid \Fu"coid\, n. (Bot.)
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed.
See {Fucoid}, a.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fucoid
n 1: a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order
Fucales
2: any of various algae of the family Fucaceae [syn: {fucoid
algae}]
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