glaucous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: glau=cous

CIDE DICTIONARY

glaucous, a. [L. glaucus, Gr. glayko`s.].

•  Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.  Lindley.  [1913 Webster]
•  Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

glaucous, adj.
1 of a dull greyish green or blue.
2 covered with a powdery bloom as of grapes.

Etymology

L glaucus f. Gk glaukos

THESAURUS

glaucous

Quaker-colored, acier, aestival, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, ashen, ashy, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, canescent, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, cinereous, cinerous, citrine, citrinous, cream, creamy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun-white, dusty, eggshell, emerald, fair, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous-green, grassy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, holly, iron-gray, ivory, ivory-white, ivy, ivy-green, lead-gray, leaden, leafy, leaved, light, lint-white, livid, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, off-white, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, pale, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pearly-white, porraceous, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smaragdine, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, springlike, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, summerlike, summery, taupe, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, whitish, whity, yellowish-green

ROGET THESAURUS

glaucous

Greenness

N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.