Terms vs Fucoid - What's the difference?
terms | fucoid |
Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus .
* Asymmetric cell division in fucoid algae'', by S. Bisgrove and D. Kropf, in the ''Journal of Cell Science , No. 114, 4319-4328, 2001:
Of sandstone: containing seaweed-like markings.
* Calcareous siltstone, Cambrian Fucoid Beds ,
A fucoid seaweed.
* A New Fossil Fucoid , by Arthur Hollick, 1910:
As nouns the difference between terms and fucoid
is that terms is while fucoid is a fucoid seaweed.As an adjective fucoid is
resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus fucus .fucoid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The first cell division in zygotes of the fucoid brown alga Pelvetia compressa is asymmetric ...
earth.ox.ac.uk webpage
- The Fucoid beds are quite variable in appearance in composition...The rock unit got its name from the early belief that these markings were the compressed remains of seaweeds (fucoids). Now it is thought that they are the trails left by feeding creatures on the sea floor.
Noun
(en noun)- Among a number of unidentified specimens...was one of an unusually well-defined, almost perfect frond of a fucoid.