etiolation
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Perhaps he overlooked the packets’ stern warnings about overcrowding and etiolation and damping off, their instructions to carefully sprinkle pre-wetted soil extremely sparsely with, say, five seeds at a time.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
The dullness of the scholastic atmosphere the grey, intolerant mediocrity that is the natural or assumed quality of every upper-class schoolmaster, is the true cause of the spiritual etiolation of "Kappa's" young friend.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Achromatism -- N. achromatism†; decoloration†, discoloration; pallor, pallidness, pallidity†; paleness &c. adj.; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various
Pound’s visionary role in leading poetry in English into the modern, after the etiolations of the late 19th century, seems incontestable.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
