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glaucus¹
- /ˈɡlɔːkəs/ UK
- /ˈɡlɔkəs/ US
- /ˈɡlɑkəs/ cot caught merger
Sounds like glaucous · Rhymes with -ɔːkəs
Where it comes from
Borrowed from translingual Glaucus, from Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “blue-grey fish”), from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
noun glaucuses
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Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
Similar: sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug
- A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia. This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.
Glaucus²
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek Γλαῦκος (Glaûkos, from γλαυκός (glaukós, literally “greyish-blue, bluish-green, glimmering”)).
proper noun
- A Greek prophetic sea god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having once been one himself.
- A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War.
- Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king.
- Son of king Minos.
- one of the sons of Priam.
- A son of Aepytus.
- One of the twelve younger Panes.
Translations
Talk about this word "glaucus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/glaucus. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. glaucus. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/glaucus "glaucus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/glaucus.Cite this
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