fuci

fu·cus

[fyoo-kuhs]
noun, plural fu·ci [-sahy] , fu·cus·es.
any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin < Greek phŷkos orchil, red color, rock lichen, rouge

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fucus (ˈfjuːkəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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]

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Fuci is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
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