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glaucous
[ glaw-kuhs ]
adjective
- light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.
glaucous
/ ˈɡlɔːkəs /
adjective
- botany covered with a bluish waxy or powdery bloom
- bluish-green
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Derived Forms
- ˈglaucously, adverb
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Other Words From
- glaucous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glaucous1
C17: from Latin glaucus silvery, bluish-green, from Greek glaukos
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Example Sentences
Its wild thyme will remain only in patches on its Trwyn, and its sandhills will be glaucous with the blue sea-holly no more.
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The stem is recumbent, tough and woody, bearing fleshy glaucous leaves with curled edges.
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The lower leaves of this plant are spinous and very glaucous, and the upper ones palmate.
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Its stem is glaucous and branched, and the large waved and deeply-cut leaves, which clasp the stem, are also of a glaucous hue.
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The other leaves are glaucous and bi-ternate, the leaflets being narrow, fleshy, and tapering towards both ends.
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