etiolated

• How does he protect his etiolated parsnip-like self-esteem from some village kid named, oh, say, Newton, who would regard him as the intellectual equivalent of a turnip? —  Yannone
• I've been this way ever since I first blossomed from an underfed, etiolated teenager into the man of substance I became. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• Great rafts of pale fungus grew from the walls like shelves, and etiolated vines garlanded struts and spars that criss-crossed the cavern. —  Bookspotcentral
• The gated convergence model can be used to explain the transition from etiolated (dark) to de-etiolated (light) growth. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
• No sunshine, no flowers; darkness produces thin, etiolated, whitened, and feeble shoots at the best. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John

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