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Dodi Schultz
December 14th, 2006, 12:18 PM
>> My AHD gives: fucus - Any of various brown algae of the genus
>> _Fucus_, which includes many of the rockweeds.

Yes, Chris, and M-W, Random House, and the Concise OED all pretty much
agree with that, explaining John's DQ. It's from Greek (phukos or phykos),
they say.

--Dodi

bonnyjars
December 14th, 2006, 12:36 PM
Dodi

I didn't mean to make my DQ public but the reason I did DQ is that fucus is the general word for "kelp" or any fronded brown seaweed
- although in fact not all of them are of the genus fucus. No-one knows if the meaning Toni gave is derivative in that face paint
was made from seaweed or derivative the other way round for greek phykos means lichen, or seaweed, or rock-paint and came to mean
rouge

JohnnyB


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> >> My AHD gives: fucus - Any of various brown algae of the genus
> >> _Fucus_, which includes many of the rockweeds.
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> Yes, Chris, and M-W, Random House, and the Concise OED all
> pretty much agree with that, explaining John's DQ. It's from
> Greek (phukos or phykos), they say.
>
> --Dodi
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