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Glaucous

Having a thin, gray-white or bluish, waxy coating. (E.g., like the coating on red grapes or some plums.) Often occurs on plant parts that are glabrous (stems, branches, leaves).
 

Figure A. Glaucous stem and leaf stalks of Rubus occidentalis.

 

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