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Meanings of etiolate in English

(Especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.

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Usage of etiolate in English
1
As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
2
Coleman has the etiolated look of a medieval martyr, an impression heightened by his impassivity.
The Guardian
3
That is the etiolated memory that captivates me now.
Perdido Street Station
4
In the intervening century the Irish people dabbled in self-government, though in an oddly etiolated sense.
The Irish Times
5
Greening of etiolated plastids is stimulated by light, which is sensed by various types of photoreceptors.
Pubmed
6
A spindly creature with a tiny central body and etiolated limbs staggered across the furniture department.
Pack animals
7
The mosquito- people had their own etiolated legends.
The Scar
8
The atmosphere in the room seemed monochrome, or disturbed in some way, the light etiolated and cowed.
Perdido Street Station
9
We had become etiolated, too, like plants growing beneath stones, denied the light and warmth of the sun.
Three ways to capsize a boat: an optimist afloat
10
All passion, when developed in the heart, has the effect of etiolating around it the vigor of other instincts.
Cosmopolis — Volume 2
11
It resulted in high levels of LUC expression in etiolated cucumber cotyledons in response to illumination and cytokinin treatment.
Pubmed
12
Later this year, in James Cameron's Avatar,Sam Worthington's consciousness is transplanted into the head of an etiolated alien smurf.
The Irish Times
13
What a weird, etiolated life.
The Scar
14
The first seedling observed was nearly two inches in height and had been etiolated by having been grown in darkness.
The Power of Movement in Plants
15
The images were as pale and etiolated as their subjects, or as dark and confusing as the nightclubs they showed.
The Guardian
16
He learnt to sign as his first language, an experience that has profoundly influenced the often etiolated communicativeness of his music.
The Irish Times