etiolate

英 ['iːtɪəʊleɪt] 美 ['iːtɪəˌleɪt]

• v. [植]黄化； 白化
• vt. 使苍白和衰弱； 阻碍 ... 的生长

英英释义

Adjective:

1. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light;

   "etiolated celery"
   

Verb:

1. make weak by stunting the growth or development of

2. bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight

3. make pale or sickly;

   "alcohol etiolates your skin"
   

经典引文

• Marxist and liberal theory have become etiolated in a late Ptolemaic attempt to 'save the phenomena'.

  出自： B. R. O. Anderson

近反义词

【近义词】

• blanched 动词blanch的过去式...
• etiolated 黄化的