glaucous
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister
Of a dull greyish blue-green, often with a powdery bloom.
The glaucous leaves of the sea holly seemed to hold the colour of the overcast sky.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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