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Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- glaucous stems
- glaucous plums
- glaucous grapes
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From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
сивозеленикав
(sivozelenikav)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Catalan:
glauc
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Georgian:
მონაცრისფრო-მოცისფრო
(monacrispro-mocispro)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Greek:
γλαυκός
(glafkós)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Ancient Greek:
γλαυκός
(glaukós)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Ido:
glauka
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Indonesian:
biru telur itik
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Italian:
glauco
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Latin:
glaucus
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Portuguese:
glauco
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Romanian:
glauc
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Russian:
серо-зелёный
(sero-zeljónyj)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Russian:
сизый
(sizyj)
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Spanish:
glauco
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Welsh:
llwydlas
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Welsh:
llwydwyrdd
— of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge
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Bulgarian:
мъхест
(mǎhest)
— covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour
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French:
pruiné
— covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour