glaucous

American  

[glaw-kuhs] / ˈglɔ kəs /

adjective

1. light bluish-green or greenish-blue.

2. Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.

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glaucous British  

/ ˈɡlɔːkəs /

adjective

1. botany covered with a bluish waxy or powdery bloom

2. bluish-green

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• glaucously
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of glaucous

1665–75; < Latin glaucus silvery, gray, bluish-green < Greek glaukós. See glauco-, -ous

Example Sentences

Glaucous; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate; calyx globular, much inflated, elegantly veined; petals 2-cleft, nearly crownless.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

A hundred years later Brunnich gave it the name of Glaucous Gull; but it is still called Burgomaster by the Dutch, and by Arctic voyagers generally.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Glaucous, covered with a bloom, viz. with a fine white powder of wax that rubs off, like that on a fresh plum, or a cabbage-leaf.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Glaucous; leaves ovate-lanceolate; flowers in flat cymes, open in sunshine; calyx club-shaped; petals notched, crowned with awl-shaped scales.—Escaped from gardens; rare.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glaucous, paniculately branched; leaves lanceolate, acute; flowers smaller and more scattered; seeds wingless.—Sparingly naturalized near New York.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa