Definition of Fucus vesiculosus

1. Noun. A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure.

Exact synonyms: Black Rockweed, Bladder Fucus, Bladderwrack, Tang
Generic synonyms: Rockweed
Group relationships: Genus Fucus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fucus Vesiculosus

Fucaceae
Fucales
Fuchs
Fuchs' adenoma
Fuchs' black spot
Fuchs' epithelial dystrophy
Fuchs' heterochromic cyclitis
Fuchs' syndrome
Fuchs' uveitis
Fuchsia coccinea
Fuchsia excorticata
Fuchsian group
Fuchsian groups
Fucus serratus
Fucus vesiculosus (current term)
Fuegian
Fuegians
Fuego
Fuentes
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia
Fugard
Fugo
Fuji
Fuji-san
Fujian
Fujihara
Fujinoyama
Fujita scale
Fujiwara

Literary usage of Fucus vesiculosus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"To this class belongs also the bladder-wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) common in our ... The egg of the common bladder- wrack (Fucus vesiculosus), a simple naked ..."

2. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"Fucus vesiculosus, Linn?.—Fruiting branch, natural size. midrib and the air-vessels in pairs, blackish; odor like seaweeds; taste mucilaginous, saline. ..."

3. Annals of philosophy.. by Thomas Thomson (1815)
"Fucus vesiculosus. Professor John, in order to obtain iodine, burnt four ounces of the fuc,us vesiculosus: the white ash remaining weighed 4-^ drams. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1876)
"Fucus vesiculosus, Linn, (includes various forms of different tidal levels, called Divaricatus, Inflatus, Spiralis, Volubilis, ..."

5. Microscopical diagnosis by Charles Henry Stowell, Louisa Reed Stowell (1882)
"Fucus VESICULOSUS. ONE can hardly take up a pharmaceutical or medical journal of the day without seeing something in it about the wonderful anti-fat ..."

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