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glau⋅cous

  [glaw-kuhs]
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–adjective
1. light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
2. Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.
Origin:
1665–75; < L glaucus silvery, gray, bluish-green < Gk glaukós. See glauco-, -ous

Related forms:
glau⋅cous⋅ly, adverb
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glau·cous   (glô'kəs)   
adj.  
  1. Of a pale grayish or bluish green.
  2. Botany Covered with a grayish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off: glaucous leaves.

[Latin glaucus, from Greek glaukos.]
glau'cous·ness n.
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Glaucous

Glau"cous\, a. [L. glaucus, Gr. ?.]

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

2. (Bot.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. --Gray.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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