glaucous
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glaucous
adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on
plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous
grapes"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glaucous \Glau"cous\ (gl[add]"k[u^]s), a. [L. glaucus, Gr.
glayko`s.]
1. Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish
blue. --Lindley.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) 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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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