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Glaucous adj.

Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

(Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glaucous" Quotes from Famous Books

... distance, in spring and summer, the trees which mark Box Hill are not box or juniper, but the whitebeams that patch the deeper green of the oaks and beeches with glaucous grey. The box-trees, though their thick, snaky stems look as if they might be any age, are not all of them old. The trees have more than once been cut and sold. Sir Henry Mildmay put them up for auction for L12,000 in 1795 ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... their thick foliage the moonlight scarcely penetrated. Their boughs almost touched each other, so that the whole surface lay in dark shadow, rendering it almost impossible to make out the hoof-prints. Here and there, a broken branch or a bunch of tossed leaves—their under-sides shining glaucous in the moonlight—enabled us to advance at a quicker rate; but as the horse had passed gently over the ground, these "signs" were few ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... in screening shadow Lydia, her bronze and rose, a lady's grace, gave and withheld: as in cool glaucous eau de Nil Mina to tankards two ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

Words linked to "Glaucous" : glaucous bristlegrass