Covered with a waxy bluish grey or seagreen bloom (as on a plum or cabbage), which rubs off easily.
Covered with a fine, waxy, removable powder that imparts a whitish or bluish cast to the surface, as in a prune or a cabbage leaf.
Blue-green in colour, with a whitish bloom.
Covered with a fine, white, often waxy film, which rubs off.
Covered with a whitish waxy bloom.
Covered with a fine, white powder that rubs off; as the bloom of the grape.
Green strongly tinged blue-grey or whitish.
Bluish gray, a more accurate description for the many conifers sold as having “blue” leaves.
Bluish gray or whitish, usually due to a thin coating or ‘bloom’ of wax which reflects light strongly. The Latin epithet glauca is applied indiscriminately by nurseries to any conifer plants with a bluish or grayish cast to the foliage.