Definitions for fucus

fucus fu·cus

Spelling: [fyoo-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈfyu kəs/

Fucus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in fucus (cfsuu).

Definitions for fucus

noun

  1. any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.

Origin of fucus

1590-1600; Latin Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge

Examples for fucus

fucus marinus vertebratus pisciculi spinum referens Icthyorachius or what you thinck fitt.

The concluding group of Algæ is the Fucaceæ, including the universally known sea wrack (fucus).

fucus digitatus, and other sea-weed, which are used as manure.

The fucus esculentus, a kind of eatable sea-weed on our northern shores.

My point is as follows: Harvey gives the case of fucus varying remarkably, and yet in same way under most different conditions.

In fucus this usually occurs on the bulbous extremities of the branches.

In some northern countries, fucus serratus sprinkled with meal is used as winter fodder.

Several species of fucus were attached either to stones or shells, as well as Ulv and Conferv.

I have also experimented with a mucilage produced by a fucus, a kind of sea-weed, which promises future success.

Found attached to stones, etc., about the holdfasts of fucus.

Word Value for fucus
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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