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Etiolated

adjective
1.
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.  Synonyms: blanched, etiolate.


Etiolate

verb
(past & past part. etiolated; pres. part. etiolating)
1.
Make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
2.
Bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight.
3.
Make pale or sickly.





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"Etiolated" Quotes from Famous Books



... particulars of an exemplary game. And suddenly your author changes. He changes into what perhaps he might have been—under different circumstances. His inky fingers become large, manly hands, his drooping scholastic back stiffens, his elbows go out, his etiolated complexion corrugates and darkens, his moustaches increase and grow and spread, and curl up horribly; a large, red scar, a sabre cut, grows lurid over one eye. He expands—all over he expands. He clears his throat startlingly, lugs at the still growing ends of his moustache, ...
— Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books • H. G. Wells
... vegetables become first yellow, that is, they lose the blue colour, which contributed to produce the green; and afterwards they also lose the yellow and become white; as is seen in cellery blanched or etiolated for the table by excluding the ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin


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