etiolation

/ ē′tē-ə-lā′shən /

1. A pathological condition of plants that grow in places that provide insufficient light, as under stones. It is characterized by elongated stems and pale color due to lack of chlorophyll.

Example Sentences

Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.

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False etiolation depends on a similar abeyance of the chlorophyll, but in this case due to too low a temperature.

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Laying of Wheat and other cereals is a particular case of etiolation.

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It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.

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The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.

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