glaucous.

Pale gray-blue or gray-green in color, often through a waxy surface bloom.

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• glaucous leaf

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A glaucous leaf turned in the breeze.

The fruit had a glaucous bloom.

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Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a color or relational classification; degree comparisons depend on descriptive context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.