anglicism. The term etiolation, discoloration, was taken by the English of the French etioler, bleaching, weakening, withering, losing vigour. It is the process of developing plants in the absence of light with little or no chlorophyll, which gives them on weakened stems and leaves a white-yellow appearance similar to roots with little vascularity.
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