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Definitions
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
Word origin
From etiolate + -ed (suffix forming verbs).
Used in a sentence
“If there is too great an accumulation of oxygen, as when a plant is kept in a dark place, then it will grow towards the nearest ray of light, which if it does not reach, it will remain white, or etiolated, and sickly.”
“Seedlings are elongated and have closed cotyledons in the dark (aetiolated) while the hypocotyls are short and the cotyledons are open in the light (de-aetiolated).”
“Birds inhabiting desert regions have an etiolated appearance.”
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