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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ee-tee-uh-leyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈi ti əˌleɪt |
Definition of etiolation
Origin :- of plants, "grown in darkness," 1791, from French étiolé, past participle of étioler "to blanch" (17c.), perhaps literally "to become like straw," from Norman dialect étule "a stalk," Old French esteule "straw, field of stubble," from Latin stipula "straw." Related: Etiolated.
- As in pallor : noun paleness
- As in feebleness : noun lack of strength; ineffectiveness
- Laying of Wheat and other cereals is a particular case of etiolation.
- Extract from : « Disease in Plants » by H. Marshall Ward
- It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.
- Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
- The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 » by Various
- Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.
- Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
Synonyms for etiolation
- achromatic
- bloodlessness
- cadaverousness
- colorlessness
- debility
- decrepitude
- delicacy
- disease
- effeteness
- enervation
- etiolation
- exhaustion
- flimsiness
- frailness
- frailty
- inability
- inadequacy
- incapacity
- incompetence
- ineffectualness
- infirmity
- infirmness
- insignificance
- insufficiency
- lameness
- languor
- lassitude
- malaise
- pallidity
- pastiness
- sallowness
- senility
- sickliness
- unhealthiness
- wanness
- weakness
- whiteness
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