English
Etymology
From Latin glaucus, from Greek γλα�κο� �blue-green, blue-grey�.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'gl�:k�s/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��k�s|-��k�s
Adjective
en-adj
- colour of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge, especially when covered with a powdery residue
#:*1955, I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium. � Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
#:*1994, 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. � Cormac McCarthy?, The Crossing
Noun
glaucous
- colour a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge.
Derived terms
glaucous gill
Related terms
glaucoma
glauconite
See also
Wiktionary_Appendix:Colours|Appendix:Colours
Category:Colors
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