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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)

  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
    • […] 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
  2. 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

comparativemore glaucous
superlativemost glaucous

Origin of glaucous

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.

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Phrases with glaucous

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

  1. glaucoside
  2. glaucosis
  3. glaucosity
  4. glaucosomatid
  5. glaucosomatids
  6. glaucous
  7. glaucous gull
  8. glaucous gulls
  9. glaucous honeysuckle
  10. glaucous pimplet
  11. glaucous pimplets

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