The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fucus \Fu"cus\, n.; pl. Fuci. [L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.]
A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]
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(Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
Note: Formerly most marine alg[ae] were called fuci.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of fucus English)
WordNet
n. any member of the genus Fucus
[also: fuci (pl)]
See fucus
Usage examples of "fuci".
The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due to the density of the element which had produced them.
From the glass windows in the drawing-room, I saw long seaweeds and gigantic fuci and varech, of which the open polar sea contains so many specimens, with their sharp polished filaments.
From the glass windows in the drawing-room, I saw long seaweeds, and gigantic fuci, and varech, of which the open polar sea contains so many specimens, with their sharp polished filaments.
There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds, giant laminariæ and fuci, a perfect espalier of hydrophytes worthy of a Titan world.
The building, now thirty feet in height, was thickly coated with fuci to the height of about fifteen feet, calculating from the rock: on the eastern side, indeed, the growth of seaweed was observable to the full height of thirty feet, and even on the top or upper bed of the last-laid course, especially towards the eastern side, it had germinated, so as to render walking upon it somewhat difficult.
I suppose, my dear Hendron, that you will forget the Laminari‘ and the Fuci, and call their ash kelp.