Definition of Etiolated

1. Adjective. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light. "Etiolated celery"

Exact synonyms: Blanched, Etiolate
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Similar to: Colorless, Colourless

Definition of Etiolated

1. Adjective. Blanched because of sunlight deprivation. ¹

2. Verb. (past of etiolate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Etiolated

1. etiolate [v] - See also: etiolate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Etiolated

ethyr
ethyrs
etianic acid
etic
etidocaine
etidronate
etidronate disodium
etidronic acid
etilefrine
etilefrine hydrochloride
etimizol
etio-
etiocholanolone
etiogenic
etiolate
etiolated (current term)
etiolates
etiolating
etiolation
etiolations
etiolin
etiolins
etiologic
etiological
etiologically
etiologics
etiologies
etiologist
etiologists
etiology

Literary usage of Etiolated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Carotinoids and Related Pigments: The Chromolipoids by Leroy Sheldon Palmer (1922)
"It is apparent that we have as yet only indirect evidence that xanthophylls are present in the etiolated leaf. C.. A. Schunck (1903) has furnished direct ..."

2. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1909)
"(1) Compare the amounts of ash which are obtained from equal dry weights of leaves of normal and etiolated potato plants. Weigh the sulphated ash. ..."

3. The Sylva Americana: Or, A Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the by Daniel Jay Browne (1832)
"... plants growing in the shade are etiolated, or devoid of the green hue, until they are placed in the full sunshine. The various shades of color exhibited ..."

4. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1907)
"Portion of cross-section of middle of stem of etiolated plant. FIGS. 3, 4. ... etiolated lo-weeks' seedling, about one fifth natural size. ..."

5. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"It would rather appear that, in etiolated, as in normal internodes, the longitudinal tissue- tension varies at different stages of growth, though perhaps ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"I will not hazard an attempt to furnish a derivation of etiolated. I may add that the word is not a neuter verb, but a passive participle, though, perhaps, ..."

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