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- IPA: /ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
- IPA: /ˈɡlɔ.kəs/
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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge, 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