Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
fucoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Fucoid.
- adjective (Geol.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds.
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- adjective botany
fucoid - adjective geology Containing
impressions offossil fucoids orseaweeds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have seen what I deemed fucoidal markings dimly impressed on the planes of some of the strata, not in the carbonaceous form so common in the other two formations, but as mere colored films of a deeper red than the surrounding matrix.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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All that could be said was, that they seemed fucoidal, and might of course belong to any age.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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a long, smooth stem, which, though it threw off, in the alternate order, numerous branches at least half as stout as itself, preserved its thickness for considerable distances without diminution, -- a common fucoidal characteristic.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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