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- English Word Ethylidene Definition An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.
- English Word Ethylin Definition Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
- English Word Ethylsulphuric Definition Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.
- English Word Etiolate Definition To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
- English Word Etiolate Definition To become pale through disease or absence of light.
- English Word Etiolate Definition To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
- English Word Etiolate Definition To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
- English Word Etiolate Definition Alt. of Etiolated
- English Word Etiolated Definition of Etiolate
- English Word Etiolated Definition Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
- English Word Etiolating Definition of Etiolate
- English Word Etiolation Definition The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
- English Word Etiolation Definition Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.
- English Word Etiological Definition Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
- English Word Etiology Definition The science of causes. Same as /tiology.
- English Word Etiquette Definition The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
- English Word Etna Definition A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
- English Word Etnean Definition Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.
- English Word Etoile Definition See Estoile.
- English Word Etoolin Definition A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.