noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/kləˈɹəʊsɪs/
Received-Pronunciation:/klɔː-/
General-American:/klɔɹˈoʊsɪs/
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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
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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