etiolate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 ēʹtē-ə-lāt'

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
  2. To make pale and sickly-looking.
    — She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.
  3. To become pale or blanched. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. etiolated

词形变化

etiolates present,singular,third-person etiolating participle,present etiolated participle,past etiolated past more etiolate comparative most etiolate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
etiolin
相关词
stubble

词源

词源 1
French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
词源 2
French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
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