fucoid

• ⇰ Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (<ord>Fucoide&aelig;</ord>) which are blackish in color, and produce o&ouml;spores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (<gen>Sargassum</gen>)

• ⇰ A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid>, <pos>a.</pos>