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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fucoid
    n 1: a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order
         Fucales
    2: any of various algae of the family Fucaceae [syn: fucoid,
       fucoid algae]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fucoid \Fu"coid\, n. (Bot.)
   A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed.
   See Fucoid, a.
   [1913 Webster]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fucoid \Fu"coid\, a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.)
   (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoide[ae])
       which are blackish in color, and produce o["o]spores
       which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the
       conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed
       (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
   (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature
       of seaweeds.
       [1913 Webster]
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