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Webster 1913 Edition
Chlorosis
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Chlo-ro′sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
χλωρόσ
light green: cf. F. chlorose
.] 1.
(Med.)
The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
2.
(Bot.)
A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chlorosis
CHLOROSIS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chlorosis
chlorosis
English
Noun
chlorosis (countable and uncountable, plural chloroses)
- (medicine, countable) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green colouration of the skin; greensickness (Wikipedia).
- (botany, phytopathology, uncountable) A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll (Wikipedia).
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Translations
yellow-green colouration of the skin