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glaucuses

glaucuses is the plural of glaucus.

Meaning of glaucus

Noun

glaucus (plural glaucuses)

  1. Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
    Synonyms:
    sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug
  2. A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
    • This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete

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Questions about glaucuses

What is glaucuses the plural of?
Glaucuses is the plural of glaucus.

Words near glaucuses in the dictionary

  1. glaucous-winged gull
  2. glaucous-winged gulls
  3. glaucously
  4. glaucousness
  5. glaucus
  6. glaucuses
  7. Glaude
  8. Glaudes
  9. Glauert's seadragon
  10. Glauke
  11. glaukomflecken

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