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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'glaucous' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions glaucous noun  (colour) a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge. adjective  (colour) of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge, especially when covered with a powdery residue 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 and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands. " Cormac McCarthy?, The Crossing Etymology: From Latin glaucus, from Greek "blue-green, blue-grey".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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