Definition of Chlorasis

Definition of Chlorasis

Chlorosis, green sickness, a disease incident to young females at a critical period of life, causing a pale-greenish complexion.

- Wikipedia

||Chlo*ro"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. chlwro`s 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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