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Definition of Blueish
1. Adjective. Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky. "Blue haze of tobacco smoke"
Definition of Blueish
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of bluish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blueish
1. bluish [adj] - See also: bluish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blueish
Literary usage of Blueish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"Tufted blueish Jungermannia. ... Flat, branched, entire; branches upright, forked,
obtuse ; the extremities blueish. SYN. ..."
2. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1900)
"Black chalk on blueish paper, heightened with white. (9) (a) (6) (c) STUDIES or
LEGS AND FEET, in costume. Black chalk. ..."
3. Medical zoology, and mineralogy; or Illustrations and descriptions of the by John Stephenson (1832)
"... transverse, dusky, or blueish undulations; beneath pale yellowish or reddish
brown, with a small black spot at the edge of each abdominal scutum, ..."
4. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by William Jackson Hooker, William Borrer, James Sowerby (1834)
"The underside is blueish in young leaves. The specimens with " partially silky
germens" mentioned under S. ..."
5. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4 by William Jardine (1866)
"Back, blueish-grey. Wings on the shoulders, blueish- grey. The wing-covers pale,
and marked with undecided dark nearly square spots, which form sometimes a ..."
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