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Meaning of 'fucoid' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fucoid [ a.]
- Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, 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.
2 . Fucoid [ n.]
- A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.

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fucate fucated fuchs fuchsia fuchsias fuchsine fuchslae fuci fucivorous fucoidal

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