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Definition of Etiolin
1. n. A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.
Definition of Etiolin
1. a yellow pigment in light-starved plants [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etiolin
Literary usage of Etiolin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative by Georg Dragendorff, Henry George Greenish (1884)
"-2 For the relation that xanthophyll (etiolin) bears to chlorophyll, see Wiesner,
Annal. d. Phys. und Chem. cliii. 622,1874, and Chem. ..."
2. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"Sachsse is of opinion that the starch is converted into etiolin, that the starch
undergoes oxidative decomposition, that fatty aldehydes and aromatic ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The other coloring matters which may be present in corpuscles arc—etiolin, yellow,
which is apparently present in all chlorophyll-corpuscles, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Normally green plants which have been kept in the dark or at too low a temperature
are said to be " etiolated," since they form etiolin ; plants which have ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Experimental Proof that the Colour* It is of great interest that the etiolin
should be as effective as chlorophyll in the production of larval colours. ..."
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