glaucous Definition
glau·cous (glô′kəs)
adjective
- bluish-green or yellowish-green
- Bot. covered with a greenish bloom that can be rubbed off, as grapes, plums, cabbage leaves, etc.
Etymology: L glaucus < Gr glaukos: see glauco-
glaucous Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- sedge: In the typical rushy grassland sedges are sparse, but in the more diverse areas glaucous sedge is prominent.
- gull: A glaucous gull was reported from the ARC site this morning.
- foliage: This is a very tall species of grass, with lovely glaucous blue foliage.
- leave: Its broad glaucous leaves show off the large heads of shining flowers.
- meadow-grass: Associated vascular plants include brittle bladder-fern Cystopteris fragilis, green spleenwort Asplenium viride and glaucous meadow-grass Poa glauca.
- green: The foliage can be variously colored but are mainly glaucous green with a few cultivars showing variegation running the length of the leaf.
Browse dictionary entries near glaucous
- ‹ glauconite
- ‹ glaucoma
- ‹ glauco-
- ‹ glatt kosher
- ‹ Glaswegian
- ‹ glassy
- ‹ glasswort
- ‹ glassworm
- ‹ glasswork
- ‹ glassware

