Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Becoming glaucous; somewhat or faintly glaucous. Also glaucine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.

Etymologies

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See glaucous and -escent.

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Examples

  • Behind them gentle wavelets continued to caress the glaucescent beach.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

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