- glaucous green
- noun
: a very pale green that is yellower and slightly less strong than tourmaline and yellower and duller than emerald tint
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glaucous green
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green — Synonyms and related words: Astroturf, a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl green, berylline,… … Moby Thesaurus
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
Glaucous — (from the Latin glaucous , meaning bluish grey or green , from the Greek glaukos ) is a botanical term (adjective) used to describe the pale grey or bluish green appearance of the surfaces of some plants.The term glaucous is also used botanically … Wikipedia
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 — [glô′kəs] adj. [L glaucus < Gr glaukos: see GLAUCO ] 1. bluish green or yellowish green 2. Bot. covered with a greenish bloom that can be rubbed off, as grapes, plums, cabbage leaves, etc … English World dictionary
green — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. immature; inexperienced; new, recent; pale, wan. See color, newness, youth, credulity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of the color green] Syn. greenish, virid, virescent. Hues of green include: emerald … English dictionary for students
green — 1. adjective 1) a green scarf Syn: viridescent; olive, jade, pea green, emerald (green), lime (green), sea green; literary virescent, glaucous 2) a green island Syn: verdant, grassy, leafy … Thesaurus of popular words
green — adj 1. greenish, viridescent, virescent, emerald, bluish green, greenish blue, grue, aqua, aquamarine, sea green, grass green, olive green, pea green, glaucous. 2. verdant, grass covered, plant covered, grassy, verdurous. 3. young, vigorous,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
glaucous — adj. [L. glaucus, bluish green] Sea green or pale bluish green in color … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
