chlorosis
/klɒˈrəʊsɪs
/noun [mass noun] (plural chloroses)
1 Botany Loss of the normal green coloration of leaves of plants, caused by iron deficiency in lime-rich soils, disease, or lack of light.Like their plant-sucking cousins, whiteflies pierce leaf tissues causing noticeable wilting, chlorosis, loss of leaves and/or stunted growth....
- At the end of the experimental period leaves of these plants showed symptoms of chlorosis.
- Iron deficiency is characterized by an interveinal chlorosis of young leaves while the veins remain green.
2 Medicine Anaemia caused by iron deficiency, especially in adolescent girls, causing a pale, faintly greenish complexion.Victims of chlorosis were usually maidens in their middle teens....
- Between 1870 and 1920, chlorosis, a form of anemia, was widely reported in female adolescents in the United States.
Derivatives
chlorotic
/ adjective ...- In A. thaliana, the iron signal showed a progressive increase from healthy non-infected leaves to green areas of infected leaves and to chlorotic areas of infected leaves.
- However, the combination of glucose and ABA caused an inhibition of early wild-type seedling growth that resulted in underdeveloped plantlets that were chlorotic and anthocyanic.
- The team was first formed in the 1960s in response to a dual epidemic of maize chlorotic dwarf virus and a potyvirus, maize dwarf mosaic virus, that devastated Ohio's cornfields.
Rhymes
- -ification
- if it ain't broke, don't fix it
- if it kills one
- if it were not for
- if I were you
- if my memory serves (me)
- if need be
- Ifni
- if not
- IFO
- if only
- -iform
- IFP
- IFR
- if so
- iftar
- if the cap fits, wear it (if the shoe fits, wear it)
- if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain
- if there ever was
- if the shoe fits, wear it
- if the worst comes to the worst
- if truth be told
- IFV
- if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
- if you ask me