Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The becoming white through loss of natural coloring matter as a result of the exclusion of light or of disease.
- noun In horticulture, the rendering of plants white, crisp, and tender by excluding the action of light from them, as celery for the table. Compare
albinism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
- noun (Med.) Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany growth process of
plants grown in theabsence of light, characterized by long, weakstems , fewerleaves andchlorosis - noun botany The operation of
blanching plants , by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant. - noun
Paleness produced by absence of light, or bydisease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (botany) the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight
- noun a pale and sickly appearance
- noun the act of weakening by stunting the growth or development of something
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Examples
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Bert made the mistake of confounding albinism with the phenomenon of etiolation in plants; in fact, he gives the name "etiolation" to the albinism noticed in his axolotls. [
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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As many examples in "Starburst" were printed later, I'm guessing that etiolation has been high except in the case of dye-transfer prints.
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Sunlight, moreover, has not only this action upon the animal kingdom, but also upon the vegetable world as well Plants, like celery, which are subjected to blanching, become whitened under the process of etiolation.
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Meanwhile Mr. Dunne's treatment of the book is in about every instance on the order of his treatment of my exchange with the Boston Globe: exercises in etiolation.
'Overdrive': An Exchange Buckley, William F. 1983
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Sunlight, moreover, has not only this action upon the animal kingdom, but also upon the vegetable world as well Plants, like celery, which are subjected to blanching, become whitened under the process of etiolation.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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He indicated that a favorable combination of etiolation, moisture, rooting medium, and a root-inducing chemical was desirable for successful rooting.
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It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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The dullness of the scholastic atmosphere the grey, intolerant mediocrity that is the natural or assumed quality of every upper-class schoolmaster, is the true cause of the spiritual etiolation of "Kappa's" young friend.
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Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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