glaucous
adj.
of blue or grayish-green color; covered in a grayish powdery material
Glaucous
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. Glaucous is also used botanically to mean 'covered with a grayish, bluish, or whitish
waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off' (e.g. glaucous leaves)
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glaucous
Adjective
1. having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"
(similar) opaque
Glaucous
(a.)
Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.
(a.)
Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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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, citrinous, cream, creamy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-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, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, 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, lead-gray, leaden, 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, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, 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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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