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FUCUS (fuci)
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Irregular inflected form: fuci
Dictionary entry overview: What does fucus mean?
• FUCUS (noun)
The noun FUCUS has 1 sense:
1. any member of the genus Fucus
Familiarity information: FUCUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any member of the genus Fucus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("fucus" is a kind of...):
rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)
Holonyms ("fucus" is a member of...):
genus Fucus (type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae)
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