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

P. incarnàta, L. Glaucous; stem slender, sparingly branched; leaves minute and linear-awl-shaped; spike cylindrical; flowers flesh-color; caruncle longer than the narrow stalk of the hairy seed.—Dry soil, Penn. to Wisc.,

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

Pussy willow, Glaucous willow, 40, 41, 171 falcata, PurshBlack willow, 42 fragilis, L. Crack willow, Brittle willow, 43-45 nigra, Marsh.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

Glaucous, sometimes slightly puberulent, often low and cespitose, the rigid branches angled; leaves narrow, erect, usually with stipular glands; flowers large; sepals lanceolate, glandular-serrulate; styles united; capsule ovoid, 5-valved.—Minn. to Kan., and southward.

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; 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

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