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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.