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
By the fierce battle under every blade, By the etiolation of the shade, By drouth and thirst and things undone half made, Oh, hear!
From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various
He indicated that a favorable combination of etiolation, moisture, rooting medium, and a root-inducing chemical was desirable for successful rooting.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
False etiolation depends on a similar abeyance of the chlorophyll, but in this case due to too low a temperature.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
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
