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Meaning of fucus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈfjuː.kəs

Definitions

Any alga of the genus Fucus.

Equivalents

Français fucus

Examples

“Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.”
“One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.”

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