fucoid in English
noun
1
a brown seaweed or fossil plant of a group to which bladderwrack belongs.
This suggests a rapid, recent evolution of at least northern hemisphere temperate fucoids .
adjective
1
of, relating to, or resembling a brown seaweed, especially a fucoid.
Ceratopteris spores, like fucoid zygotes, divide unequally to produce a small rhizoid cell and a larger cell that develops into the thallus.
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1. Fucoid algae release male and female gametangia (Antheridia and oogonia) through multicellular pores to the surface of the alga from spherical, subepidermal conceptacles present throughout the reproductive tissue (receptacles, Fritsch 1945)