Fucoid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fucoid \Fu"coid\, a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.)
     (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: ({Fucoide[ae]})
         which are blackish in color, and produce o["o]spores
         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.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fucoid \Fu"coid\, n. (Bot.)
     A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed.
     See {Fucoid}, a.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fucoid
       n 1: a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order
            Fucales
       2: any of various algae of the family Fucaceae [syn: {fucoid
          algae}]