etiolation

• “Bert made the mistake of confounding albinism with the phenomenon of etiolation in plants; in fact, he gives the name "etiolation" to the albinism noticed in his axolotls. [”

  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

• “As many examples in "Starburst" were printed later, I'm guessing that etiolation has been high except in the case of dye-transfer prints.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Color Burst Through

• “Meanwhile Mr. Dunne's treatment of the book is in about every instance on the order of his treatment of my exchange with the Boston Globe: exercises in etiolation.”

  'Overdrive': An Exchange

• “He indicated that a favorable combination of etiolation, moisture, rooting medium, and a root-inducing chemical was desirable for successful rooting.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

• “It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891

• “Sunlight, moreover, has not only this action upon the animal kingdom, but also upon the vegetable world as well Plants, like celery, which are subjected to blanching, become whitened under the process of etiolation.”

  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

• “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.”

  An Englishman Looks at the World

• “Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation.”

  Evolution in Modern Thought

• “It appears, therefore, that it is by the action of light that the vital properties of vegetables are supported, as it is by the action of oxygen that those of animals are preserved; consequently, etiolation is to the former what asphyxia is to the latter.”

  Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

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