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Word of the Day for Thursday, April 16, 2009etiolate \EE-tee-uh-layt\, transitive verb: 1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight. Under that etiolated sky all life seemed wrung out. [They] had feverish eyes, pale faces and gaunt, etiolated bodies from spending all the hours of daylight shut up in cramped and often humid spaces. Etiolate comes from French étioler, perhaps for s'éteuler, "to become like straw," from Old French esteule, "stubble or straw," from Latin stipula, "a stalk, straw." | |||||||||
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