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/klôˈrōsəs/,
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chloroses, plural;
  1. Abnormal reduction or loss of the normal green coloration of leaves of plants, typically caused by iron deficiency in lime-rich soils, or by disease or lack of light

  2. Anemia caused by iron deficiency, esp. in adolescent girls, causing a pale, faintly greenish complexion. It was a common diagnosis in the 19th century

  1. iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin
  2. (chlorotic) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis
  3. In botany, chlorosis is a condition in which leaves produce insufficient chlorophyll. As chlorophyll is responsible for the green colour of leaves, chlorotic leaves are pale, yellow, or yellow-white. ...
  4. In medicine, chlorosis (also known as "green sickness") is a form of anemia named for the greenish tinge of the skin of a patient. Its symptoms included lack of energy, shortness of breath, dyspepsia, headaches, a capricious or scanty appetite and amenorrhoea. ...
  5. (Chlorotic) When there is a nutrient deficiency that causes a plant to fail to produce chlorophyll, a yellowing of the plants tissue can occur, and the plant if referred to as being chlorotic.
  6. (Chlorotic) (klor-ROT-ik) -- A yellowish plant as opposed to a normal green one.
  7. The loss or poor production of chlorophyll in a plants leaves, resulting in them loosing their green colour.
  8. Chlorosis is caused by a plants inability to obtain the iron it needs to produce green coloring. A plant that suffers from chlorosis has yellowish or less green color.
  9. An abnormal yellowing or blanching of the leaves due to lack of chlorophyll.
  10. Discoloration of normally green plant parts caused by disease, lack of nutrients, or various air pollutants.
  11. the condition of a sick plant with yellowing leaves due to inadequate formation of chlorophyll: Chlorosis is caused by a nutrient deficiency, usually iron or imbalanced pH.
  12. A yellowing, whitening, or paling of plant parts which are normally green, such as interveinal chlorosis which takes pace between leaf veins. The cause is a lack of chlorophyll, the root cause can be insect-, disease-, or nutrient-related.
  13. a symptom of disease or disorder in plants in which a plant or part of a plant is light green or greenish-yellow because of poor chlorophyll development or destruction of chlorophyll
  14. the loss or decreased chlorophyll due to viral infection, microbial infection, lack of light, or iron deficiency.
  15. Loss of green color in foliage followed by yellowing on the tissue.
  16. Condition describing the yellowing of leaves. Typically caused by either insufficient light or an imbalance of essential elements. Also see Interveinal Chlorosis and Halo-ing.
  17. A lack of iron characterised in plants by an often intense yellow of the leaves.
  18. (adj. chlorotic) An unseasonable yellowing of the foliage, may occur in bands on needles.
  19. abnormal yellowing (or whitening) of normally green leaves.
  20. yellowing of normally green tissue owing to chlorophyll destruction or failure of chlorophyll formation
  21. Yellowing or bleaching of normally green plant tissue usually caused by the loss of chlorophyll.
  22. An abnormal yellowing of foliage due to nutrient deficiencies or disease.
  23. Yellowing of leaves, due to the failure of chloroplasts, this may be caused by nutritional problems, environmental stress, or old age.
  24. GREEN SICKNESS) - Iron deficiency anaemia; a disease of young women giving the complexion a greenish tinge   »Online
  25. Lack of green color in leaves, caused by nutritional deficiencies, environment or disease.