单词 | glaucous |
释义 | glaucous[ glaw-kuhs ] / ˈglɔ kəs / adjectivelight bluish-green or greenish-blue. Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum. Origin of glaucous1665–75; <Latin glaucus silvery, gray, bluish-green <Greek glaukós.See glauco-, -ous OTHER WORDS FROM glaucousglau·cous·ly, adverbWords nearby glaucousglaucomatous cataract, glaucomatous cup, glaucomatous halo, glauconite, glaucophane, glaucous, glaucous gull, glaur, glaze, glazed, glaze ice Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for glaucousBritish Dictionary definitions for glaucousglaucous / (ˈɡlɔːkəs) / adjectivebotany covered with a bluish waxy or powdery bloom bluish-green Derived forms of glaucousglaucously, adverbWord Origin for glaucousC17: from Latin glaucus silvery, bluish-green, from Greek glaukos Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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