- glaucous blue
- noun
: a grayish blue that is greener and paler than electric or copenhagen and greener and lighter than Gobelin
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glaucous blue
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glaucous — glaucously, adv. /glaw keuhs/, adj. 1. light bluish green or greenish blue. 2. Bot. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum. [1665 75; < L glaucus silvery, gray, bluish green < Gk glaukós. See GLAUCO , OUS] * * * … Universalium
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