Meaning of glaucus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 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.
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3. A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
4. A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War.
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5. Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king.
   Greek
6. Son of king Minos.
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7. one of the sons of Priam.
   Greek
8. A son of Aepytus.
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9. One of the twelve younger Panes.
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Examples

“This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.”

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