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etiolated

adjective as in anemic

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Example Sentences

Pauline surrendered, and they went across the etiolated lawn towards the entrance.

The undergrowth was green, but in the etiolated way of plants which have little light, though that may have been my fancy.

Because of this fact, magnesium-starvation produces etiolated plants, which cannot function normally.

It can thus develop its personality so that it does not become etiolated and atrophied like a domestic animal.

His voice was hollow, etiolated like a flower grown in darkness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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