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[syn: fucoid, fucoid algae]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fucoid \Fu"coid\, n. (Bot.)
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed.
See Fucoid, a.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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,
fucoid algae]