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Definition of Genus Fucus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae.
Group relationships: Family Fucaceae, Fucaceae
Member holonyms: Fucus, Fucus Serratus, Serrated Wrack, Tang, Black Rockweed, Bladder Fucus, Bladderwrack, Fucus Vesiculosus, Tang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fucus
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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