Crossword clues for etiolated
etiolated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, Etiolated \E"ti*o*la`ted\, a. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. Etiolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Etiolating.] [F. ['e]tioler to blanch.]
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
(Med.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.
Wiktionary
1 blanched because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight. 2 (context botany English) grown in the dark v
(en-past of: etiolate)
WordNet
Usage examples of "etiolated".
At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.
Only four days since I had landed here first, in my first African dawn, over a grey ochreish plain dotted exactly as it should be with the etiolated acacias you see on all the posters, and wildebeest and buffalo we were coming in over the Nairobi National Park.
The first seedling observed was nearly two inches in height and had been etiolated by having been grown in darkness.
It was not at all like the Catholic masses of Enderby's youth, dyspeptic Maynooth leprechauns peevish about last week's collections, or the anaemic evensongs of his brief curative Anglicanism, with fine if archaic Jacobean prose apologetically delivered by cricketing rectors and very well-made hymns bleated by conservativeclubcakebaking etiolated housewives with herb gardens.
Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized and automatic.