glaucous

• His face was bony with a big nose and wide mobile mouth, the skin pallid in the moonlight, the eyes very pale in colour, perhaps a light hazel or a glaucous green. —  The Third Wexford Omnibus
• Federal officials said biologists found 157 juvenile and 29 adult glaucous-winged gull carcasses, as well as 41 bald eagle carcasses that appear to have died in recent months.
• When the "tjufjo" sees a kittiwake or a glaucous gull fly off with a shrimp, a fish, or a piece of blubber, it instantly attacks it. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• The nodes are glabrous The leaf-blade is glaucous, narrow, lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, acuminate with a hardened tip, 1 to 7 or 9 inches long, 1/2 to 1/4 inch broad, flat or involute when slightly faded, with a few distantly scattered hairs above, especially towards the lower portion of the blade when young, and becoming glabrous later, glabrous on the lower surface, margin is finely serrate and with a few cilia towards the base, some hairs being tubercle-based; base of the blade is rounded or cordate, midrib is prominent and keeled Illustration: Fig. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Stems are glaucous, smooth, solid, woody, thick below, freely branching, 5 to 10 feet long or more The leaf-sheath is smooth, imbricating, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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