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Definition of Fucoids

Fucoid
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.
Fucoid
Fucoid Fu"coid, n. (Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.

Meaning of Fucoids from wikipedia

- The Fucales (fucoids) are an order in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). The list of families in the Fucales, as well as additional taxonomic information...
- s****s" show a narrow Verrucaria zone at high water and a full sequence of fucoids: Pelvetia, F. serratus, F. spiralis, F. vesiculosus, Ascophyllum nodosum...
- F. James comparing 'fucoids' to modern traces made it increasingly clear that most of the specimens identified as fossil fucoids were animal trails and...
- other gross morphological features. A number of Devonian fossils termed fucoids, from their resemblance in outline to species in the genus Fucus, have...
- productivity of individual plants is lower due to lower biom**** ac****ulation of fucoid algae. Studies conducted by Pilson, Asare, and Harlin between 1983 and 1985...
- rocks a distinct rock layer, known as the Fucoid Beds, has been identified. The fossils found in the Fucoid Beds are very different to those from rocks...
- Bisgrove, Sherryl R; Hable, Whitney E (1999). "Establishing a growth axis in fucoid algae". Trends in Plant Science. 4 (12). Elsevier BV: 490–494. doi:10...
- algae in the order Fucales. As presently defined, Cystoseira comprises fucoids characterised by antherozoids without stigmata, few antheridial branches...
- the features found on the undersides of beds were called hieroglyphs, fucoids, and bio hieroglyphs, because of their structure and how they were thought...
- In fact, during the 1800s invertebrate ichnofossils were explained as fucoids, or seaweed, and their true nature was widely understood only by the early...