glaucous
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1. glaucous - Adjective
2. glaucous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.
Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.
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glaucous stems
glaucous plums
glaucous grapes
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.
Description It is a perennial or annual growing to convert tall, with alternately branching glaucous blue-green foliage.
Leaves bright green to pale glaucous green, 25–60 mm; cones with slightly ridged scales.