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Fucus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A paint; a dye; also, false show.

Fucus [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1828

fucuses. In botany, a genus of Algae, or seaweed; the sea-wrack, etc.

Fucus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A paint; a dye; also, false show.

2. A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

Fucusol [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.