Meaning of GLAUCOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'glokus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes" |
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| | Synonyms: | | opaque |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glau"cous\, a. [L. glaucus, Gr. ?.]
1. Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish
blue. --Lindley.
2. (Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder
easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage
leaf. --Gray.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Blue-green in colour, with a whitish bloom. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acier, aestival, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, ashen, ashy, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, canescent, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, cinereous, cinerous, citrine, citrinous, cream, creamy, dapple, dappled, dappled-gray, dapple-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun-white, dusty, eggshell, emerald, fair, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous-green, grassy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, grayed, gray-green, grayish, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, holly, iron-gray, ivory, ivory-white, ivy, ivy-green, leaden, lead-gray, leafy, leaved, light, lint-white, livid, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, off-white, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, pale, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pearly-white, porraceous, Quaker-colored, sad, silver, silvered, silver-gray, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smaragdine, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, springlike, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, summerlike, summery, taupe, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, whitish, whity, yellowish-green |
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