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glaucose

glaucose is the alternative form of glaucous.

Meaning of glaucous

Adjective

glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)

  1. Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
    • I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  2. Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.

Forms of glaucose

comparativemore glaucose
superlativemost glaucose

Questions about glaucose

What is glaucose the alternative form of?
Glaucose is the alternative form of glaucous.

Words near glaucose in the dictionary

  1. glaucophanites
  2. glaucophanization
  3. glaucophanized
  4. glaucophyte
  5. glaucophytes
  6. glaucose
  7. glaucoside
  8. glaucosis
  9. glaucosity
  10. glaucosomatid
  11. glaucosomatids

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