Get to know Glaucous better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like opaque.
Glaucous in a sentence
Glaucous meaning
- Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
- Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Synonyms of Glaucous
Using Glaucous
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue. | Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
- Useful related words include: opaque.
- In the example corpus, glaucous often appears in combinations such as: glaucous blue-green.
Context around Glaucous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glaucous
- In this selection, "glaucous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 17 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, branching, dull, pale, blue, leaves and green stand out and add context to how "glaucous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alternately branching glaucous blue green and and dull glaucous leaves in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glaucous" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glaucous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Leaves dark green to glaucous blue-green, 10–25 mm. (10 words)
Leaves bright green to pale glaucous green, 25–60 mm; cones with slightly ridged scales. (15 words)
Mature plum fruit may have a dusty-white coating that gives them a glaucous appearance. (15 words)
E. caesia exhibits the opposite pattern of leaf development to most eucalyptus, with shiny green leaves in the seedling stage and dull, glaucous leaves in mature crowns. (27 words)
Description It is a perennial or annual growing to convert tall, with alternately branching glaucous blue-green foliage. (18 words)
They are perennial, long-lived, glaucous, short in stature, and have extremely prostrate growth and yellow flowers. (17 words)
Example sentences (6)
Description It is a perennial or annual growing to convert tall, with alternately branching glaucous blue-green foliage.
E. caesia exhibits the opposite pattern of leaf development to most eucalyptus, with shiny green leaves in the seedling stage and dull, glaucous leaves in mature crowns.
Leaves bright green to pale glaucous green, 25–60 mm; cones with slightly ridged scales.
Leaves dark green to glaucous blue-green, 10–25 mm.
Mature plum fruit may have a dusty-white coating that gives them a glaucous appearance.
They are perennial, long-lived, glaucous, short in stature, and have extremely prostrate growth and yellow flowers.
Common combinations with glaucous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- glaucous blue-green 2×