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—glaucously, adv./glaw"keuhs/, adj.1. light bluish-green or greenish-blue.2. Bot. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.[1665-75; < L glaucus silvery, gray, bluish-green < Gk glaukós. See GLAUCO-, -OUS]
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Glaucous — (from the Latin glaucous , meaning bluish grey or green , from the Greek glaukos ) is a botanical term (adjective) used to describe the pale grey or bluish green appearance of the surfaces of some plants.The term glaucous is also used botanically … Wikipedia
Glaucous — Glau cous (gl[add] k[u^]s), a. [L. glaucus, Gr. glayko s.] 1. Of a sea green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. Lindley. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
glaucous — (adj.) bluish green, gray, 1670s, from L. glaucus bluish green, of uncertain origin; used in Homer of the sea as gleaming, silvery (apparently without a color connotation); used by later writers with a sense of bluish green, gray, of olive leaves … Etymology dictionary
glaucous — [glô′kəs] adj. [L glaucus < Gr glaukos: see GLAUCO ] 1. bluish green or yellowish green 2. Bot. covered with a greenish bloom that can be rubbed off, as grapes, plums, cabbage leaves, etc … English World dictionary
glaucous — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, acier, aestival, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, ashen, ashy, beryl green, berylline, blue green, bluish green, canescent, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, cinereous, cinerous, citrine,… … Moby Thesaurus
glaucous — adjective technical a glaucous leaf or plant has a fine white powdery surface … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
glaucous gull — n. a large, white and bluish gray, arctic gull (Larus hyperboreus) that often preys on smaller birds … English World dictionary
Glaucous-winged Gull — Taxobox name = Glaucous winged Gull status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Laridae genus = Larus species = L. glaucescens binomial = Larus glaucescens binomial… … Wikipedia
Glaucous Macaw — Taxobox name = Glaucous Macaw status = PE | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Psittaciformes familia = Psittacidae genus = Anodorhynchus species = A. glaucus binomial = Anodorhynchus glaucus… … Wikipedia
Glaucous Gull — Taxobox name = Glaucous Gull status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Laridae genus = Larus species = L. hyperboreus binomial = Larus hyperboreus binomial authority … Wikipedia
Glaucous Tanager — Taxobox name = Glaucous Tanager status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Thraupidae genus = Thraupis species = T. glaucocolpa binomial = Thraupis glaucocolpa binomial… … Wikipedia
