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ETIOLATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does etiolated mean?
• ETIOLATED (adjective)
The adjective ETIOLATED has 1 sense:
1. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
Familiarity information: ETIOLATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
Synonyms:
Context example:
etiolated celery
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Context examples
Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and then thought I had done with the whole crew.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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