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adjective Fucoid adj. (Bot.) (a)Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores 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.
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