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 seeds having been sown too thickly, the bases of the haulms, owing to the etiolation and consequent lack of carbohydrates, suffer from want of stiffening tissues, and the top-heavy plants fall over.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Its withdrawal does not so immediately destroy the plant, being attended with the etiolation of the parts that are usually colored, but a sudden re-exposure to the sun's rays will now destroy the plant.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
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 Peter Mark Roget
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
