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Webster 1913 Edition
Fucoid
Fu′coid
,Adj.
[
Fucus
+ -oid
.] (Bot.)
(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. (b)
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
Fu′coid
,Noun.
(Bot.)
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See
Fucoid
, Adj.
Definition 2024
fucoid
fucoid
English
Adjective
fucoid (comparative more fucoid, superlative most fucoid)
- Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.
- Asymmetric cell division in fucoid algae, by S. Bisgrove and D. Kropf, in the Journal of Cell Science, No. 114, 4319-4328, 2001:
- The first cell division in zygotes of the fucoid brown alga Pelvetia compressa is asymmetric ...
- Asymmetric cell division in fucoid algae, by S. Bisgrove and D. Kropf, in the Journal of Cell Science, No. 114, 4319-4328, 2001:
- Of sandstone: containing seaweed-like markings.
- Calcareous siltstone, Cambrian Fucoid Beds, earth.ox.ac.uk webpage
- The Fucoid beds are quite variable in appearance in composition...The rock unit got its name from the early belief that these markings were the compressed remains of seaweeds (fucoids). Now it is thought that they are the trails left by feeding creatures on the sea floor.
- Calcareous siltstone, Cambrian Fucoid Beds, earth.ox.ac.uk webpage
Noun
fucoid (plural fucoids)
- A fucoid seaweed.
- A New Fossil Fucoid, by Arthur Hollick, 1910:
- Among a number of unidentified specimens...was one of an unusually well-defined, almost perfect frond of a fucoid.
- A New Fossil Fucoid, by Arthur Hollick, 1910: