a. [f. prec.; see -OTIC. Cf. F. chlorotique.]
1. Pertaining to, or affected with, green sickness.
1764. Grainger, Sugar-Cane, IV. 150. The chlorotic fair Oft chalk prefer to the most poignant cates.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs. (1826), 115. He was much emaciated … and had a chlorotic appearance.
1873. W. S. Mayo, Never Again, xv. 199. A sickly sensitiveness that would disgrace a chlorotic girl.
fig. 1875. Contemp. Rev., XXVI. 987. Poor, thin, maundering,—we were going to call it chlorotic Christianism.
1881. Standard, 7 Oct., 5/2. Those who devote themselves to depicting chlorotic saints and emaciated cherubs.
2. Bot. Affected with chlorosis (sense 2 a).
1836. Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 309. The field looks shabby, becomes chlorotic, pines away.
1870. T. L. Phipson, trans. Guillemin’s Sun, 56. A plant … shut up in a dark place … becomes chlorotic; its green colour disappears.
