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