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UK
/ɡlˈɔːkəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants
glaucous grapes
glaucous plums
glaucous stems
How To Use glaucous In A Sentence
- Friedrich's ‘Landscape with a View of Mt Milleschauer’, possibly unfinished, is a desolate near-abstract without figures or even more than notional vegetation, in five dismal glaucous shades.
- Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water.
- _ Black, with glaucous-white tomentum and with white hairs. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- glaucous grapes
- Glaucous gulls L. hyperboreus and Kelp gulls L. dominicanus were also nested within L. argentatus, and the discovery about the Kelp gull is interesting: this species is unique to the Southern Hemisphere, and Liebers et al. (2004) concluded that it must have evolved via long-distance colonisation ‘from the same ancestral population as the Lesser black-backed gull, suggesting that its ancestors were highly migratory, as nominate Lesser black-backed gulls still are today’ (p. 895). Archive 2006-02-01
- Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water.
- It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves.
- And, even if the eerily atmospheric music is a trifle intrusive, the design recreates the glaucous strangeness of the fjords.
- The leaflets are evenly arranged in pairs, mostly in six pairs; they are each about 2in. long, lance-shaped, mucronate, entire, smooth, and glaucous. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- The leaf blades are stiff, glaucous to gray with strongly mammillate margins.