单词 | fucoid |
释义 | fucoidadj.n. A. adj. (a) Resembling or belonging to seaweeds, esp. those of the group Fucaceæ. (b) Characterized by or containing impressions of such seaweeds or markings similar to them. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] seaweedy1832 fucoid1839 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > formations by contents > [adjective] > containing organic remains > containing fossils fossiliferous1829 ammonitiferous1830 nummulitic1830 hippurite1831 indusial1833 fucoid1839 encrinal1845 reptiliferous1845 fucoidal1849 nummuline1861 encrinitic1863 encrinital1876 spiriferous1888 1839 G. Roberts Dict. Geol. Fucoïd, a term applied to several fossil plants. There is a fucoïd shale, so called from the abundance of fuci it contains. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria vi. 136 In the cliffs at Ludlow, the chief rocks are surmounted by what I termed the fucoid bed. This is a greenish-grey argillaceous sandstone, almost entirely made up of a multitude of small, wavy, rounded, stem-like forms, which resemble entangled sea-weeds. 1871 C. Lyell Student's Elem. Geol. xxvii. 473 These sandstones have been called in Sweden ‘fucoid sandstones’. B. n. (a) A seaweed of the group Fucaceæ. (b) A fossil marine plant resembling these. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > fossil plants > [noun] cycadite18.. Bothrodendron1835 lepidodendron1836 calamite1837 sphenophyllum1837 stigmaria1845 polyporite1846 fucoid1848 Muscites1859 lepidodendrid1863 Bennettites1871 lepidodendroid1872 progymnosperm1885 pteridosperm1904 Bennettitales1907 seed fern1907 the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle hangera1483 tanglec1540 tang1547 sea-ragged-staff1633 tangle-wrack1721 sea-cabbage1764 prickly tang1795 yellow tang1809 tangle-weed1825 fucoid1848 saw-wrack1868 tangle-work1890 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Fucoid, a fossil plant belonging to the order Fucaceæ. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) i. 17 The fucoids, or kelp-weeds. 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 172 Fucoids or fucus-like impressions, occur in strata of every epoch. 1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders iii. 30 The feathery sertularia, the delicate fucoid. 1860 All Year Round 7 Apr. 562 Little fucoids, progenitors of the kelp-weeds. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 477 The Lower Cambrian Rocks have yielded many so-called ‘fucoids’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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