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Definition of Fucoid

1. Noun. A fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales.

Definition of Fucoid

1. a. 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.

2. n. A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.

Definition of Fucoid

1. Adjective. Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus. ¹

2. Adjective. Of sandstone: containing seaweed-like markings. ¹

3. Noun. A fucoid seaweed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fucoid

1. a brown seaweed [n -S] : FUCOIDAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Fucoid

1. Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in colour, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character. In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds. Origin: Fucus. A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fucoid

Literary usage of Fucoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"... Harlech grits, and Llanberis slates—Lower Cambrian, Comley Sandstone, Cambrian of Scotland, Durness Limestone, Girvan Limestone—' fucoid '- and ..."

2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"Analysis of ventral plication of specimen from the fucoid bed. FIG. 4. ... fucoid bed. FIG. 5. Same as fig. 4 with the parts of the shell analyzed. FIG. 6. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"West uf these lines of displacement the Cambrian sequence is undisturbed from the basal quartzites to the fucoid beds. On the horizon of the latter the ..."

4. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1842)
"The Bilobed fucoid appears to belong to a genus in which the terminal part shows two lobes, as in this species, or one lobe only; specimens of the same ..."

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