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chlorosis

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kləˈɹəʊsɪs/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /klɔː-/
  • General-American: /klɔɹˈoʊsɪs/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green coloration of the skin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: green fever, green sickness, chloremia[Appendix:Glossary

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, phytopathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: greensickness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: iron deficiency anemia, iron deficiency anaemia

History

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin; by surface analysis, chlor- + -osis, where chlor- in this instance refers to pale yellow-green colorations and not to chlorine.

Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: clorosi — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • French: chlorose — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Italian: clorosi — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Polish: blednica — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Polish: chloroza — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Polish: bladaczka — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Portuguese: clorose — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Portuguese: cloremia — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Spanish: clorosis — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Tagalog: klorosis — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Turkish: kloroz — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Welsh: clorosis — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Welsh: y glasglwyf — yellow-green colouration of the skin
  • Catalan: clorosi — yellowing of the leaves
  • French: chlorose — yellowing of the leaves
  • Italian: clorosi — yellowing of the leaves
  • Polish: chloroza — yellowing of the leaves
  • Portuguese: clorose — yellowing of the leaves
  • Spanish: clorosis — yellowing of the leaves
  • Turkish: kloroz — yellowing of the leaves
  • Turkish: sarıcalık — yellowing of the leaves
  • Welsh: clorosis — yellowing of the leaves
  • Welsh: glesni — yellowing of the leaves