Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to chlorosis: as, chlorotic affections.
  • Affected by chlorosis.
  • noun One who suffers from chlorosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with chlorosis, anaemic.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis

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Examples

  • The first signs are yellowish (chlorotic) foliage in the upper leaves.

    4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

  • Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topog'raphy, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life-giving sunlight.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topog­raphy, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life‑giving sunlight.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Above ground the leaves may become chlorotic, turn orange, or wilt.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Mild mosaic is characterised by a chlorotic mottling of the foliage usually accompanied by a slight crinkling, while other virus diseases include mottle or potato virus X, spindle tuber, yellow dwarf and paracrinkle virus.

    Chapter 25 1987

  • However, recently in Nigeria, experimentally-grown winged beans have made comparatively slow growth accompanied by markedly chlorotic, light-green foliage, which suggests that the rate of nodulation is very dependent upon the availability of the most effective rhizobial strains, probably of the cowpea group.

    Chapter 35 1987

  • On highly calcareous soils it is likely to turn chlorotic.

    6. Best-Known Species 1984

  • Symptoms vary with the species, age of plants when infected, and the climate, but usually include chlorotic striping of the leaves and leaf sheaths, stunting, excessive tillering, and deformities of the ears and tassels.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • Whiteflies (Bemisia spp.) do not usually cause direct damage but can transmit bean golden mosaic virus and bean chlorotic mottle virus.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • A wide variety of symptoms are produced such as leaf mottling (blotching), leaf curling, chlorotic (yellow) or necrotic (dead) spots on the leaves, leaf striping, and excessive branching.

    Chapter 10 1981

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