- glaucous gray
- noun
: a light bluish gray to light gray that is redder and darker than skimmed-milk white and very slightly greener than cinerous
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glaucous gray
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glaucous — (adj.) bluish green, gray, 1670s, from L. glaucus bluish green, of uncertain origin; used in Homer of the sea as gleaming, silvery (apparently without a color connotation); used by later writers with a sense of bluish green, gray, of olive leaves … Etymology dictionary
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
glaucous gull — n. a large, white and bluish gray, arctic gull (Larus hyperboreus) that often preys on smaller birds … English World dictionary
Glaucous-winged Gull — Taxobox name = Glaucous winged Gull status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Laridae genus = Larus species = L. glaucescens binomial = Larus glaucescens binomial… … Wikipedia
glaucous — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, acier, aestival, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, ashen, ashy, beryl green, berylline, blue green, bluish green, canescent, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, cinereous, cinerous, citrine,… … Moby Thesaurus
gray — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white, bloodless, boring, buckskin,… … Moby Thesaurus
glaucous gull — noun : a large boreal gull (Larus hyperboreus) that is pure white with a bluish mantle when adult called also burgomaster * * * a large white and pale gray gull, Latus hyperboreus, of Arctic regions. [1820 30] * * * glaucous gull, a large white… … Useful english dictionary
glaucous — adjective Etymology: Latin glaucus, from Greek glaukos gleaming, gray Date: 1671 1. a. of a pale yellow green color b. of a light bluish gray or bluish white color 2. having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to… … New Collegiate Dictionary
glaucous-winged gull — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a white gull (Larus glaucescens) having a pale gray mantle and pale gray wing tips and ranging from the Bering sea to California and Japan … Useful english dictionary
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
