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Definition of Fucus vesiculosus
1. Noun. A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure.
Generic synonyms: Rockweed
Group relationships: Genus Fucus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fucus Vesiculosus
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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