Definition of Genus Fucus

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fucus

genus Fragaria
genus Francisella
genus Francoa
genus Frankliniella
genus Frasera
genus Fratercula
genus Fraxinus
genus Freesia
genus Fregata
genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus (current term)
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia
genus Funka
genus Furnarius
genus Fusanus
genus Fusarium
genus Fuscoboletinus
genus Gadus
genus Gaillardia
genus Galago
genus Galax

Literary usage of Genus Fucus

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

1. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"K comprises those sea-weeds of the old genus Fucus, whose ~ fronds are cartilaginous or leathery, and of an olive or copper colour, becoming brown or black. ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... a name sometimes applied indiscriminately to many of the larger Algas of the sea-shores, but also employed to designate the species of the genus Fucus ..."

3. Biographical Sketches in Cornwall by Richard Polwhele (1831)
"In the investigation of those which are at present arranged under the genus Fucus, and which are found on the shores of Great Britain, ho was sedulously ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... as the Edible moss of the Eastern Archipelago, and referred by him to the genus fucus. The fructifications, however, being in small tubercles, the Rev. ..."

5. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Genus. Fucus. Species. vesiculosus. B. Habitat: 1. Ascertain the habitat of this plant from your reading and class discussions, and record it in your ..."

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