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Fucus   Listen
noun
Fucus  n.  (pl. fuci)  
1.
A paint; a dye; also, false show. (Obs.)
2.
(Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed. Note: Formerly most marine algae were called fuci.





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"Fucus" Quotes from Famous Books



... sundry touches 825 Of the paint-smutches with which the Duchess Heightened the mellowness of her cheek's yellowness (To get on faster) until at last her Cheek grew to be one master-plaster Of mucus and fucus from mere use of ceruse: 830 In short, she grew from scalp to udder Just the object ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning


Words linked to "Fucus" :   genus Fucus, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, rockweed


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