etiolation

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Perhaps he overlooked the packets’ stern warnings about overcrowding and etiolation and damping off, their instructions to carefully sprinkle pre-wetted soil extremely sparsely with, say, five seeds at a time.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various

By the fierce battle under every blade, By the etiolation of the shade, By drouth and thirst and things undone half made, Oh, hear!

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

Its withdrawal does not so immediately destroy the plant, being attended with the etiolation of the parts that are usually colored, but a sudden re-exposure to the sun's rays will now destroy the plant.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

False etiolation depends on a similar abeyance of the chlorophyll, but in this case due to too low a temperature.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall