Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fucus"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Oogonium \O`["o]*go"ni*um\, n.; pl. L. {O["o]gonia}, E.
{O["o]goniums}. [NL., fr. Gr. w,'o`n an egg + ? offspring.]
(Bot.)
A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing
o["o]spheres, as in the rockweeds ({Fucus}), and the orders
{Vaucherie[ae]} and {Peronospore[ae]}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fucus \Fu"cus\, n.; pl. {Fuci}. [L. rock lichen, orchil, used as
a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.]
1. A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]

2. (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a
dull brownish green color; rockweed.

Note: Formerly most marine alg? were called fuci.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fucus
n : any member of the genus Fucus

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