Etiolated

Quick meaning: Etiolated is an adjective meaning (horticulture) Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark.

Meaning

(horticulture) Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Of an animal or person: having an ashen or pale appearance; also, haggard or thin; physically weak.
2. (figurative) Lacking in vigour; anemic, feeble.
3. simple past and past participle of etiolate
4. (chiefly botany, horticulture) Of a plant or part of a plant: pale and weak because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.

Example Sentences

Seedlings are elongated and have closed cotyledons in the dark (aetiolated) while the hypocotyls are short and the cotyledons are open in the light (de-aetiolated).

If there is too great an accumulation of oxygen, as when a plant is kept in a dark place, then it will grow towards the nearest ray of light, which if it does not reach, it will remain white, or etiolated, and sickly.

In a report of 1901, the "triple response" of etiolated pea seedlings (growth inhibition, thickening of the subapical region, horizontal nutation) was observed to occur in the presence of illuminating gas and ethylene was identified as the inducing agent.

It is a fact well known to gardeners, that plants, when blanched, lose many of their active properties; and dandelion thus prepared, is frequently eaten on the continent in salads; [...] The French eat the young roots, and the etiolated leaves, with thin slices of bread and butter; [...]

Synonyms for etiolated

Depending on context, synonyms include etiolized, emaciated, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, blanched.

Antonyms for etiolated

Common opposites include nonetiolated, deetiolated.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colorless, blanched, colourless, epicotyls, hypocotyls, aetiolated.

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