etiolation

[ ē′tē-ə-lā′shən ]

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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.

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Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.
Evolution in Modern Thought|Ernst Haeckel
False etiolation depends on a similar abeyance of the chlorophyll, but in this case due to too low a temperature.
Disease in Plants|H. Marshall Ward
Laying of Wheat and other cereals is a particular case of etiolation.
Disease in Plants|H. Marshall Ward
It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.
Vegetable Teratology|Maxwell T. Masters

The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891|Various

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