glaucus

Meanings

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 desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.

1. 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.
2. A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War.
3. Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king.
4. Son of king Minos.
5. one of the sons of Priam.
6. A son of Aepytus.
7. One of the twelve younger Panes.

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Glaucus, from Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “blue-grey fish”), from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).