fucus (ˈfjuːkəs) ![]() | |
| —n , pl -ci, -cuses | |
| See also wrack any seaweed of the genus Fucus, common in the intertidal regions of many shores and typically having greenish-brown slimy fronds | |
| [C16: from Latin: rock lichen, from Greek phukos seaweed, dye, of Semitic origin] | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |