fucoid

Fucales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. Members of this order are fucoids. The list of families (see box at right) in Fucales, as well as additional taxonomic information on algae, is publicly accessible at Algaebase. [1] The Class Phaeophyceae is included within the Division Heterokontophyta. This name comes from the Greek word phaios meaning "brown" and phyton meaning plant. They include some of the largest plants in the sea, some however are small and fine in structure.
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Noun
1. a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales
(hypernym) fossil
(member-holonym) Fucales, order Fucales
2. any of various algae of the family Fucaceae
(synonym) fucoid algae
(hypernym) brown algae
(member-holonym) Fucaceae, family Fucaceae

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

(a.)
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.
  

(a.)
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
  

Resembling sea weed

fucoid /'fju:kɔid/
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