Glaucus
//ˈɡlɔːkəs// name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
- 2 A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
"This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation."
Proper Noun
- 1 A Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having once been one himself. Greek
- 2 A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War. Greek
- 3 Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king. Greek
- 4 Son of king Minos. Greek
- 5 one of the sons of Priam. Greek
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- 6 A son of Aepytus. Greek
- 7 One of the twelve younger Panes. Greek
Example
More examples"This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from translingual Glaucus, from Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “blue-grey fish”), from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek Γλαῦκος (Glaûkos, from γλαυκός (glaukós, literally “greyish-blue, bluish-green, glimmering”)).
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