fucoid

fucoid is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
3. noun. A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
4. noun. any of various algae of the family Fucaceae
5. noun. a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales

Common word forms

fucoids, fucoidal

Words from these letters

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