Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning \"bluish-grey or green\", from the Greek glaukós) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus), glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens), glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa).The term glaucous is also used botanically as an adjective to mean \"covered with a greyish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off\" (e.g. glaucous leaves).The first recorded use of glaucous as a color name in English was in the year 1671."@en }
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- Glaucous abstract "Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning \"bluish-grey or green\", from the Greek glaukós) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus), glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens), glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa).The term glaucous is also used botanically as an adjective to mean \"covered with a greyish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off\" (e.g. glaucous leaves).The first recorded use of glaucous as a color name in English was in the year 1671.".