Fucoid: alternatives and connections

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Fucoid

Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

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Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

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