glaucous

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Pronunciation

/ˈɡlɔː.kəs/ (UK)

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/ˈɡlɔː.kəs/ (UK) · /ˈɡlɑ.kəs/ (US) · /ˈɡlɔ.kəs/ (US)

Definition of glaucous

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.

“I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]”
“[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.”
“Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.”

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adj

Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.

“I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]”
“[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.”
“Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.”
Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.

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