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Glaucous

//ˈɡlɑ.kəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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 […]"

  2. 2
    Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants wordnet

Etymology

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

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