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noun

Chlorosis n.

(Med.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

(Bot.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

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Etymology of 'Chlorosis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chlorosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... her only son (the father of La Pechina) Madame Niseron had a charming little daughter, lively and innocent,—one of those beings that seem perfected only because they are to die, which she did at the age of fourteen from "pale color," the popular name for chlorosis among the peasantry. The darling of the parsonage, where the child fluttered about her great uncle the abbe as she did in her home, bringing clouds and sunshine with her, she grew to love Mademoiselle ...

— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac

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