NOUN
- any of various algae of the family Fucaceae
- a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales
How To Use fucoid In A Sentence
- In the fucoid zygote, polarization events can be triggered by a range of stimuli, including unidirectional light and fertilization.
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- This suggests a rapid, recent evolution of at least northern hemisphere temperate fucoids.
- They are the remains, in all probability, of a long flexible fucoid, like those fucoids of the intertropical seas that, streaming slantwise in the tide, rise not unfrequently to the surface in fifteen and twenty fathoms water. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- In the on-selling health products, fucoidan usually plays its role as an immune-stimulator," the company said. NutraIngredients RSS
- I have seen what I deemed fucoidal markings dimly impressed on the planes of some of the strata, not in the carbonaceous form so common in the other two formations, but as mere colored films of a deeper red than the surrounding matrix. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
- The fucoid of the Caithness flagstones threw off, as I have shown, in the alternate order, numerous ribbon-like branches or fronds; whereas the ribbon-like fronds or branches of the The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
- Seaweed is chosen with high levels of organic sulphate, one of the most active constituents of fucoidan, and which is guaranteed at a level of at least 25 per cent. NutraIngredients RSS
- Here and there a few glittering scales occur; here and there a few coprolitic patches; here and there the faint impression of a fucoid; but no organism sufficiently entire to be transferred to the bag. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- Like the Lower Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and Moray, the red arenaceous strata occur in thick beds, separated from each other by bands of a grayish-colored stratified clay, on the planes of which I could trace with great distinctness ripple markings; but in vain did I explore their numerous folds for the plates, scales, and fucoid impressions which abound in the gray argillaceous beds of the shores of the Moray and Cromarty Friths. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland