How To Use Glaucous In A Sentence
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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.
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Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water.
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_ Black, with glaucous-white tomentum and with white hairs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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glaucous grapes
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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).
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Handsome glaucous foliage and erect narrow spikes of white and yellow blooms held just above the water.
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It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves.
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And, even if the eerily atmospheric music is a trifle intrusive, the design recreates the glaucous strangeness of the fjords.
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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.
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The leaf blades are stiff, glaucous to gray with strongly mammillate margins.
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The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity.
Lorna Doone
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Several familiar forms of plants were discovered; also a new Eucalyptus, with a glaucous suborbicular subcordate leaf, and the bark of the rusty gum: a stunted or middle-sized tree, which grew in great abundance on the ranges.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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Several familiar forms of plants were discovered; also a new Eucalyptus, with a glaucous suborbicular subcordate leaf, and the bark of the rusty gum: a stunted or middle-sized tree, which grew in great abundance on the ranges.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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glaucous plums
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While glaucous types had surfaces with dense networks of rods and filaments, the EW of glossy phenotypes had less dense vestures of filaments, rods, angular and irregular plates, polygons and globules.
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Branches numerous, composed of long, terete joints, rather thicker than a goose-quill, glaucous-green, slightly roughened on the surface, with depressions for the dot-like cushions.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.
Where Birds Rule the Earth
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Of numerous theories, the most accepted was that it was a hybrid between the hyacinth and glaucous macaws.
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A distinctive identifying and ornamental characteristic of this species is the blue-white glaucous coating laid down on the young branches.
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Turning, his eyes caught the glaucous glance of the marble angel.
THE THORN BIRDS
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For what princely traveller sojourning here incognito, could they be intended, those glaucous plums, luminous and spherical as was at that moment the circumfluent sea, transparent grapes clustering on a shrivelled stick, like a fine day in autumn, pears of a heavenly ultramarine?
Within a Budding Grove
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glaucous stems
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Below we report the geographic distribution of long-tailed ducks, eiders, scoters, glaucous gulls, and Pacific loons with respect to month and ice cover.
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The color of the leaves is always more glaucous, that is, of a darker and more bluish green, than is usual in the cauliflowers.
The Cauliflower
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Suddenly, one of the glaucous gulls — a huge white-and-gray predatory bird — snatched a young murre from a ledge, swallowing it whole.
Where Birds Rule the Earth
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To contrast and complement this, Helleborus argutifolius with its glaucous grey-green leaves would make a good frontage.
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Seibold's funkia (called also day lily) has pale bluish flowers, and large, handsome glaucous leaves: the undulated-leaved funkia has beautifully variegated leaves, and pale bluish blossoms; these, together with several others of their race, are in bloom.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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With its prostate growth habit, the ground-hugging stems of this form are clothed in glaucous foliage.
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It is a compact bush, with dark-coloured foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom.
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All was glaucous green but for her rosy flesh and her long golden hair.
Portobello
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_Pussy willow, Glaucous willow_ 40, 41, 171 falcata, Pursh _Black willow_ 42 fragilis, L. _Crack willow, Brittle willow_ 43-45 nigra, Marsh.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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Suddenly, one of the glaucous gulls — a huge white-and-gray predatory bird — snatched a young murre from a ledge, swallowing it whole.
Where Birds Rule the Earth
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Species of sections Musa and Rhodochlamys share common characteristics, possessing the same chromosome number and having bracts that are generally sulcate, glaucous and that become revolute on fading.
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The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, flat, acuminate, narrowed towards the base which may be acute, subcordate or rarely even petiolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy above and glaucous beneath, 4 to 10 inches long and 1/4 to 1 inch broad.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Conversely, sorrow that was smothered in guilt tended to be a sort of glaucous hue.
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The leaf blades are stiff, glaucous to gray with strongly mammillate margins.
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Observations on glossy and glaucous plants show that the predators are more active, cover more of the plant surface, and fall less from the reduced EW Brassica and Pisurn.
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The _leaf-blade_ is linear or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous beneath, base rounded or subcordate, 1 to 3 inches long and 1/2 to 3/4 inch broad.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
Bird Cloud
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Species of sections Musa and Rhodochlamys share common characteristics, possessing the same chromosome number and having bracts that are generally sulcate, glaucous and that become revolute on fading.
