glaucous

[ glaw-kuhs ]

adjective

1. light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
2. Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.

glaucous

/ ˈɡlɔːkəs /

adjective

1. botany covered with a bluish waxy or powdery bloom
2. bluish-green

Derived Forms

• ˈglaucously, adverb

Other Words From

• glaucous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of glaucous¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of glaucous¹

C17: from Latin glaucus silvery, bluish-green, from Greek glaukos

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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