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Chlorotic

Chlorotic \Chlo*rot"ic\, a. [Cf. F. chlorotique.] Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

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chlorotic

a. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with chlorosis, anaemic.

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chlorotic

adj. of or pertaining to chlorosis

Usage examples of "chlorotic".

Some of them were totally vegetarian, browsing on the sparse, chlorotic plant life that still grew in the dust-filtered twilight.

One of them down there, slim and chlorotic, was nodding and grimacing at the crowd like an actor.

Men of all ages and in enormous numbers came swarming to the altar, loudly bawling for help against their sins, but the women were anything but numerous, and the few who appeared were chiefly either chlorotic adolescents or pathetic old Saufschwestern.

And in the stygian grotto I saw them do the rite, and adore the sick pillar of flame, and throw into the water handfuls gouged out of the viscous vegetation which glittered green in the chlorotic glare.

Schurig, who gives numerous examples in epileptics, maniacs, chlorotic young women, pregnant women, children who have soiled their beds and, dreading detection, have swallowed their ejecta, and finally among men and women with abnormal appetites.

Du Saulle quotes the case of a chlorotic girl of fourteen who eagerly drank human blood.

Some of them were totally vegetarian, browsing on the sparse, chlorotic plant life that still grew in the dust-filtered twilight.

Viroids like this one caused several plant diseases, including pale cucumber disease, chrysanthemum stunt, chlorotic mottle, cadang-cadang, citrus exocortis.