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glaucous
/ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
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What does glaucous mean?
adjective
- Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
- Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
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It has very glaucous foliage, and large flowers, which vary according to the variety from pure white to rose.
The leaves are oval, lanceolate, glaucous on their inferior part, and curled at the edges.
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Probably the best of the native firs for the northeastern region; leaves broad, glaucous.
In the orchestra stalls, the drugget covering them looked like an angry sea, whose glaucous waves had been suddenly rendered stationary by a secret order from the storm phantom, who, as everybody knows, is called Adamastor.
As at Walden, in sultry dog-day weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.