etiolate

动词 etiolate:

1. make weak by stunting the growth or development of
2. bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
3. make pale or sickly

形容词 etiolate:

1. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
   同义词：etiolated, blanched

e.ti.o.late

v.（动词）
e.ti.o.lat.ed,e.ti.o.lat.ing,e.ti.o.lates
v.tr.（及物动词）
Botany To cause (a plant) to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight.
【植物学】 使黄化：用使（植物）不受阳光的办法，使其在无叶绿素的情况下生长

To cause to appear pale and sickly:
使苍白和衰弱：
例句：
a face that was etiolated from years in prison.
因多年监狱生活而变得苍白衰弱的脸

To make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
阻碍…的生长：通过阻碍…的成长或发展使变得虚弱
v.intr.Botany （不及物动词）【植物学】
To become blanched or whitened, as when grown without sunlight.
黄化，白化：在没有阳光的情况下生长而变苍白

来源：
French étioler
法语 étioler
from Norman French étieuler [to grow into haulm]
源自 诺曼法语 étieuler [生长成茎叶]
from éteule [stalk]
源自 éteule [主茎，花梗]
from Old French esteule
源自 古法语 esteule
from Vulgar Latin *stupula
源自 俗拉丁语 *stupula
from Latin stipula
源自 拉丁语 stipula

【引伸】
e.tiola.tion
n.（名词）