different between powdery vs glaucous

powdery

English

Etymology

powder +? -y

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?pa?d??i/

Adjective

powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)

  1. Of or pertaining to powder.
    • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, ch. 21,
      We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.

Related terms

  • powderiness
  • powderily

Translations

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glaucous

English

Etymology

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (glaukós, blue-green, blue-grey), 1670s. See Irish glas.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??l??.k?s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /??l?.k?s/, /??l?.k?s/
  • Rhymes: -??k?s

Adjective

glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)

  1. (color) Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
  2. (botany) Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.

Derived terms

  • glaucous gull
  • glaucous sedge
  • glaucous-winged gull

Related terms

  • glaucescent
  • glaucoma
  • glauconite
  • subglaucous

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

References

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