Crossword clues for fucus
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
algae genus, 1716, from Latin fucus, a type of reddish seaweed or rock-lichen, from or related to Greek phykos "seaweed," which is said to be of Semitic origin. From it was prepared in ancient times a red dye for woolen goods; hence in Greek and Latin it also had a sense "red paint" and was the general word for the article of women's make-up that supplied the place of rouge; and in Latin it was further extended to include "deceit, disguise." The custom is said to have originated among the Ionians, who were in close contact with Semitic peoples. The word was in Middle English as fuke, fuike "dissimulation" (mid-15c.); "red woolen cloth" (late 15c.); later fucus "a paint, dye," especially for the face, "rouge," also commonly used 17c. figuratively as "disguise, pretense." Hence also obsolete fucate "disguised, dissembling" (1530s), literally "colored, beautified with paint," from Latin fucatus "painted, painted, colored, disguised," past participle adjective from fucare, a verb derived from fucus.
Wiktionary
n. Any alga of the genus ''Fucus''.
WordNet
n. any member of the genus Fucus
[also: fuci (pl)]
Wikipedia
Fucus is a genus of brown algae found in the intertidal zones of rocky seashores almost throughout the world.
Usage examples of "fucus".
I had placed myself at the port-scuttle, and saw some magnificent substructures of coral, zoophytes, seaweed, and fucus, agitating their enormous claws, which stretched out from the fissures of the rock.
The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due to the density of the element which had produced them.
He glanced at my tousled hair and the smeared fucus and creta of my face, his expression compounded of inquiry, concern and a trace of moralistic disapproval.
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.
There were vast heaps of stone, amongst which might be traced the vague and shadowy forms of castles and temples, clothed with a world of blossoming zoophytes, and over which, instead of ivy, sea-weed and fucus threw a thick vegetable mantle.