glaucous
/ˈɡlɔː.kəs/US/ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
glaucous adjective: of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
Adjective
glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)
- 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
- […] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
- Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
glaucous meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian
glaucous in Tamil
- கடற்பச்சையான
glaucous in Bengali
- ধূসর
glaucous in Indonesian
- of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
- biru telur itik
Forms of glaucous
| comparative | more glaucous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most glaucous |
Origin of glaucous
From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.
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Words that rhyme with glaucous
Questions about glaucous
- What does glaucous mean?
- Glaucous means of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
- What is glaucous in Tamil?
- Glaucous in Tamil is கடற்பச்சையான. See Glaucous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is glaucous?
- Glaucous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce glaucous?
- Glaucous is pronounced /ˈɡlɔː.kəs/ (UK).
Words near glaucous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glaucous (page history and authors); glaucous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glaucous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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