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‖ glaucus|ˈglɔːkəs|
[mod.L.; sense 1 echoes Pliny's use of L. glaucus, a. Gr. γλαῦκος, prob. a subst. use of γλαυκός adj. (see prec.); the other senses are direct applications of the L. adj.]
†1. Some kind of fish. Obs.
c1520Andrew Noble Lyfe xv. in Babees Bk. 234 Glaucus is a whyte fissh that is but selden sene except in darke rayne weder. a1529Skelton Bk. 3 Foles Wks. 1843 I. 203 More bytterer thenne the gall of the fyshe glauca. 1598Epulario G j, To dresse a glaucus or corbo grosso fish. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 16 A fish called Glaucus, whereof the male swalloweth up all the young ones when they are endangered..and afterwards yeeldeth them forth again. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Glaucus, the Sea-stickling, a sort of Fish; also the Sea-Blewling.
2. The burgomaster gull (Larus glaucus).
1785Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 374 Glaucus Gull. Larus glaucus. 1848Lytton K. Arthur ix. xxxvii, The ravening glaucus [foot-note The Larus Glaucus, the great bird of prey in the Polar regions]. 1862― Str. Story I. ii. 18 Rows of gigantic birds—ibis and vulture, and huge sea glaucus—glared at me.
3. ‘A genus of nudibranchiate molluscs, found in the warmer latitudes, floating in the open sea, beautifully colored with blue’ (Webster).
1847in Craig. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 195 Glaucus. 1854Bushnan in Circ. Sci. (c. 1865) II. 29/1 The Glaucus, a beautiful little mollusc, of the Indian Seas and Mediterranean, painted in blue and silver. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 107/1 The fantastic glaucus and luminous salpa. |