GLAUCOUS DEFINITIONS - 8 definitions found
glaucous adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes" Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) glaucous adjective Etymology: Latin glaucus, from Greek glaukos gleaming, gray Date: 1671 1. a. of a pale yellow-green color b. of a light bluish-gray or bluish-white color 2. having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to rub off • glaucousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary glaucous ˈɡlɔ:kəs adj. 1 of a dull greyish green or blue. 2 covered with a powdery bloom as of grapes. [L glaucus f. Gk glaukos] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Glaucous \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms glaucous a. Sea-green. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 118 Moby Thesaurus words for "glaucous": 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 |
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