etiolate

How To Use etiolate In A Sentence

• Several other plants had flowers borne on pedicels about three cm. long and petiolate bracts, the bracts being about as long as the pedicels.
• Small amounts of such products have been observed by other groups in protein samples from etiolated barley and wheat seedlings.
• Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. Les Miserables
• The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb. Tragedy and Comedy of Life
• This species also belongs to the division Liacos; the petiolated cell is small and oblong-quadrate; the male exactly resembles the female, except that its head is smaller and narrower than the thorax; the abdomen is rather more strongly punctured. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
• And if you want a casing made out of etiolated Saskatchewan hoar frost you can probably get that too.
• Plants grown in pots were etiolated by keeping 4-week-old plants in complete darkness for 2 days.
• Apart from an elongated waist which gave him the look of the etiolated shadow of a much taller man, he was not altogether bad looking.
• The cast in the original production were much more hippie - etiolated individuals with bad teeth and sometimes rather lanky hair. Times, Sunday Times
• Green barley that had never been etiolated gave essentially the same results as etiolated plants that were exposed to light.