"dull bluish-green, gray," 1670s, from Latin glaucus "bright, sparkling, gleaming," also "bluish-green," of uncertain origin, from Greek glaukos, a word used in Homer of the sea as "gleaming, silvery" (apparently without a color connotation); used by later writers with a sense of "greenish" (of olive leaves) and "blue, gray" (of eyes). Homer's glauk-opis Athene probably originally was a "bright-eyed," not a "gray-eyed" goddess. Greek for "owl" was glaux from its bright, staring eyes. Middle English had glauk "bluish-green, gray" (early 15c.).
实用例句
1. Aggregate long ellipsoid, 13 cm long, 9 cm in diameter ; pericarp with glaucous lenticels.
聚合果长椭球形, 长达13厘米, 直径约9厘米,外果皮有苍白色皮孔.来自互联网
2. Exception occurred on Glaucous oak with an increase in stem mass ratio under higher light.
