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Webster 1913 Edition


Chlorotic

Chlo-rot′ic

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
chlorotique
.]
Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chlorotic

CHLOROTIC

, a.
1.
Pertaining to chlorosis; as, chlorotic affections. Medical Repository.
2.
Affected by chlorosis; as, chlorotic nuns.

Definition 2024


chlorotic

chlorotic

English

Adjective

chlorotic (comparative more chlorotic, superlative most chlorotic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with chlorosis, anaemic.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, [] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, []!”

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