Definitions for etiolateˈi ti əˌleɪt
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
e•ti•o•lateˈi ti əˌleɪt(v.)-lat•ed, -lat•ing.
(v.t.)to cause (a plant) to whiten or grow pale by excluding light.
Category: Botany, Plant Pathology
to drain of color or vigor.
Category: Common Vocabulary
(v.i.)(of plants) to whiten or grow pale through lack of light.
Category: Botany, Plant Pathology
Origin of etiolate:
1785–95; < F étioler to make pale
e`ti•o•la′tion(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
etiolate, etiolated, blanched(verb)
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
"etiolated celery"
etiolate(verb)
make weak by stunting the growth or development of
etiolate(verb)
bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
etiolate(verb)
make pale or sickly
"alcohol etiolates your skin"
Wiktionary
etiolate(Verb)
To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
etiolate(Verb)
To make a person pale and sickly-looking.
Origin: étioler, from Norman étieuler, ultimately from estuble, from stupla, from stipula (English stubble).
Webster Dictionary
Etiolate(verb)
to become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants
Etiolate(verb)
to become pale through disease or absence of light
Etiolate(verb)
to blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays
Etiolate(verb)
to cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light
Etiolate(adj)
alt. of Etiolated
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