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glaucous

/glaw-kuhs/US // ˈglɔ kəs //UK // (ˈɡlɔːkəs) //

苍白的,有白霜的,有白霜,带白霜的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
    • : Botany. covered with a whitish bloom, as a plum.

Examples

  • Its wild thyme will remain only in patches on its Trwyn, and its sandhills will be glaucous with the blue sea-holly no more.

  • The stem is recumbent, tough and woody, bearing fleshy glaucous leaves with curled edges.

  • The lower leaves of this plant are spinous and very glaucous, and the upper ones palmate.

  • Its stem is glaucous and branched, and the large waved and deeply-cut leaves, which clasp the stem, are also of a glaucous hue.

  • The other leaves are glaucous and bi-ternate, the leaflets being narrow, fleshy, and tapering towards both ends.