Definitions for glaucous

glaucous glau·cous

Spelling: [glaw-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈglɔ kəs/

Glaucous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in glaucous (acglosuu).

Definitions for glaucous

adjective

  1. light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
  2. Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.

Origin of glaucous

1665-75; Latin glaucus silvery, gray, bluish-green Greek glaukós. See glauco-, -ous

Examples for glaucous

Its body is formed of a dozen segments, covered with a glaucous dust.

It is an acrid, glaucous, leafy and prickly plant, with a milky juice.

The fruit is sweet, purple or nearly black, glaucous and edible.

Soames remained at his post of fidelity to the glaucous witch.

Perennial, and extensively stoloniferous; bright or glaucous green.

It has glaucous leaves, and the fruit-pods are quadrangular in form.

It was a glaucous, intertwining, delicious flux and contest in flux.

Our species are biennial, leafy-stemmed, and pale or glaucous.

The glimmer was an enigma, like the glaucous light from the eye-pupil of a Sphinx.

He would have a "glaucous" colour, that is, a light grey or whitish green.

Word Value for glaucous
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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