etiolate

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  1. transitive verb Botany To cause (a plant) to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight.
  2. transitive verb To cause to appear pale and sickly: a face that was etiolated from years in prison.
  3. transitive verb To make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
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  1. French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, to grow into haulm, from éteule, stalk, from Old French esteule, from Vulgar Latin *stupula, from Latin stipula.

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  1. Formed, as if from a L. past participle in -atus, from French étioler, blanch, from Old French estioler, become slender or puny (Roquefort); French dial. (Norman) reflexive s'etieuler, grow into stalks or straw, from esteule, straw, stubble, French éteule, stubble, from Latin stipula, straw: see stipule.
 

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