Definition of Fucoid algae

1. Noun. Any of various algae of the family Fucaceae.

Exact synonyms: Fucoid
Generic synonyms: Brown Algae
Group relationships: Family Fucaceae, Fucaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fucoid Algae

fucoid
fucoid algae (current term)
fucoidal
fucoidan
fucoidans
fucoids
fucolipid
fucolipids
fucopeptide
fucopyranose
fucopyranoses
fucosamine
fucosamines
fucose
fucoses
fucosidase

Literary usage of Fucoid algae

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

1. Transcending Boundaries: Natural Resource Management from Summit to Sea edited by Rabel J. Burdge (2001)
"We also measured a decrease in cover of fucoid algae (32%) as well as barnacle cover in accessible intertidal areas beyond a baseline of winter storms (78%) ..."

2. Alaska and Its Resources by William Healey Dall (1897)
"fucoid algae are also eaten. They do not eat whale blubber, as the whale is one of their totems, but use that of the porpoise and seal. ..."

3. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"... its fructification being either unexplored by them, or admitted, as by Gré ville, to have in fact " no affinity with that of" fucoid Algae. ..."

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