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单词 etiolated
释义 etiolated, ppl. a.|ˈiːtɪəʊleɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Blanched, pallid, colourless. Also fig.
1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. to Phys. & Med. Knowledge 186 The whiteness of etiolated vegetables is occasioned by the deficiency of light.1848C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) 146, I..left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms.1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xxii. 359 It is caoutchouc in a particular state, I may almost say an etiolated caoutchouc.1857–81O. W. Holmes in Old Vol. of Life (1883) 60 This poor human weed, this dwarfed and etiolated soul.1866Reader 15 Dec. 1005 Examples of the kind of etiolated theology.1879A. Mongredien Free Trade & Eng. Comm. (ed. 4) 26 These industries..are for the most part sickly, nerveless, and etiolated.
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