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glaucous

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glau·cous  (glôks)
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.]
glaucous·ness n.
glaucous [ˈglɔːkəs]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany covered with a bluish waxy or powdery bloom
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) bluish-green
[from Latin glaucus silvery, bluish-green, from Greek glaukos]
glaucously  adv
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Adj.1.glaucous - having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"
opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
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glaucous
adj leaves → mit einer weißlichen Schicht überzogen; glaucous blue/green → gräulich blau/grün
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As at Walden, in sultry dog-day weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.
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In the orchestra stalls, the drugget covering them looked like an angry sea, whose glaucous waves had been suddenly rendered stationary by a secret order from the storm phantom, who, as everybody knows, is called Adamastor.
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