Salubrious Float Kingfisher

Latin salūbris, healthful — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, salubrious implies a clear-and-healthful-and-fresh quality, the crisp color of Alpine-and-Sea-air health-resort and Mediterranean-coast spa-and-thalassotherapy outdoor environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to healthful and bracing in usage.

Old English flotian, to-move-on-water-surface. As a color modifier, float implies a buoyant-and-untethered-and-drifting quality, the visual register of lotus-pond-and-petal-on-river-float hand-buoyant-and-untethered-and-drifting lotus-pond-and-petal-on-river-and-paper-lantern floated-and-buoyant-and-untethered-and-drifting surfaces under lotus-pond-and-petal-on-river-and-paper-lantern Heian-and-Edo-and-Yangtze still-water-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to drift and hover in usage.

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.