Relating to or belonging to the family Fucaceae; characteristic of brown seaweeds or kelps.
From Fucaceae plus the Latin adjective-forming suffix -ous, meaning 'of or pertaining to.' This creates the adjective form for classification.
This adjective lets scientists efficiently describe anything that has the properties of that seaweed family without repeating the whole name—language efficiency at work in scientific naming.
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