Etymology

fucoid

F4U1C3O1I1D2

Today it means: Resembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus. Full definition →

Ancient Greek φῦκος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφῦκος“seaweed”
  2. English todayfucoid

From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekφῦκος all →

fucusfucivorefucivorousfucoxanthinphyco-phycophaein

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.