Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England:
- UK:
- US:
- IPA: /ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
- IPA: /ˈɡlɔ.kəs/
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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
- (botany) Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Esimerkit
- 1955, I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium. — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- 1994, inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands. — Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
- Glaucous means covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Taivutusmuodot
Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
Wine grapes with glaucous coating
(botany) Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Plums with some glaucous coating visible
Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
Sedum spathulifolium is a glaucous perennial herbaceous plant.