cerulean

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A greenish-blue color. countable,uncountable
    — For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
  2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides. countable
形容词 adj.
  1. Sky-blue.
    — As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.

词形变化

ceruleans plural cærulean alternative more cerulean comparative most cerulean superlative cærulean alternative

词源

词源 1
From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
词源 2
From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
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