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UK
/ˈɛtɪˌɒleɪtɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
etiolated celery
How To Use etiolated In A Sentence
- Small amounts of such products have been observed by other groups in protein samples from etiolated barley and wheat seedlings.
- 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.
- Exposure of etiolated cereal leaves to red light results in unrolling.
- This paper is a study on morphogenetic process of bulb formation of explants from etiolated seedlings of Fritillaria pallidiflora Schrenk.