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fucuses

fucuses is the plural of fucus.

Meaning of fucus

Noun

fucus (plural fuci or fucuses)

  1. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
    • Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint)
  2. (obsolete) A skin cosmetic, a wash or colouring for the skin.
    • And to morrowe morning, ¶ I’le ſend you a perfume, firſt to reſolue ¶ And procure ſweat, and then prepare a Bath ¶ To clenſe, and cleare the Cutis; againſt when, ¶ I’le haue an excellent new Fucus made, ¶ Reſiſtiue 'gainſt the ſunne, the raine, or wind, ¶ Which you ſhall lay on with a breath, or...1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act II
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) A veil, pretense, mask; an artifice, deception.
  4. (obsolete) Any dye or colouring.

Questions about fucuses

What is fucuses the plural of?
Fucuses is the plural of fucus.

Words near fucuses in the dictionary

  1. fuculokinase
  2. fuculokinases
  3. fuculose
  4. fucus
  5. fucused
  6. fucuses
  7. fucusol
  8. fud
  9. fudadome
  10. Fudala
  11. Fudalas

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