etiolated celery.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to etiolate celery.    From Dictionary.com. 

Hardly the kind of etiolated artsy sort of thing you're complaining about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulitzer -- yawn -- prizes] Reference

She's got blue hair and etiolated skin the color of a button mushroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Drive-Thru] Reference

Gradually, the drawings turn sparse, etiolated, as the MS takes its toll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iranian Illustrator's Allusive Eye] Reference

And it thrives today -- often in odd and etiolated form -- in American popular media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: Mona Lyndie] Reference

Talk about etiolated that IS changing language and meaning into second hand chewing gum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruse on Kitzmiller v. Dover - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Forsooth, I verilly had to inquire as into the humour of the locution that is etiolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intelligent Design offers biblical alternative to Darwinian evolution, Dembski says - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

It is a sign of the etiolated nature of the recovery that both options are currently "in play".    From Wordnik.com.  [Global recovery's weakness raises possibility of trade war] Reference

Last night I dreamed that my tomato seedlings came up etiolated, and this morning they kind of did.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Obstructed View Café...] Reference

Postmodernism had etiolated the generation of the sixties; the radical ideas were coming from the Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s Left?] Reference

And meanwhile, the field of Democratic candidates looks — how shall one put it? — a trifle etiolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

That was to turn life into a thin, etiolated shadow, lived like one long, dry, joyless mathematical equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference

My guess is that their writing is too "garish" for the etiolated sensibilities of the New York/Boston tastemakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quite possibly ...] Reference

Inquisition, the child grew up in melancholy solitude, like an etiolated plant that has been deprived of the sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronzino's Medici portraits – review] Reference

Never more have this etiolated bunch demonstrated just how foul their "project" is and what vile bodies they really are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vile bodies] Reference

They are convinced see below that, once physical emergence is conceded, the rest of their etiolated worldview somehow follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church & evolution again] Reference

It must be the stark white of the dress against the urban scene, coupled with her ectomorphic and etiolated frame that does it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Large Sizes, and a random BSG digression - A Dress A Day] Reference

Words like cheongsam, aubade, and etiolated draw attention to themselves, particularly when they are repeated over and over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference

There is, therefore, a risk that as the government shrinks the public sector there is only an etiolated private sector to take its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coalition will inflict cuts now and spend later to win a second term] Reference

Philip the Third was an etiolated and perfumed dandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference

A paroxysm of fear gripped his already etiolated body.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The fascination with an etiolated economic vocabulary did not come out of nowhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Review of Books] Reference

I am going to put back these curtains, and let in some light, -- you will become etiolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference

The little drawn face, etiolated and weary-looking, recommends sleep; but Baby is a bad sleeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference

But in our populist time with too many half-educated people at large, awful has become etiolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference

No sunshine, no flowers; darkness produces thin, etiolated, whitened, and feeble shoots at the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

He felt as the etiolated grass and daisies must do when you move the garden roller away to a new place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference

The question is whether British unions, in their current etiolated state, are capable of mounting serious opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Osler] Reference

I've been this way ever since I first blossomed from an underfed, etiolated teenager into the man of substance I became.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The string quartet traces a series of etiolated, rather Nono-like ideas against the somewhat archaic-sounding vocal writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

His abstract and etiolated internationalism has been replaced by the warm humanity of writers like, say, David or Pernerstorfer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Secret of Ireland] Reference

Then the pale, etiolated voices of the nuns, the wailing of these weak voices -- there were three altos, three sopranos -- began again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Innes] Reference

Great rafts of pale fungus grew from the walls like shelves, and etiolated vines garlanded struts and spars that criss-crossed the cavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookspotcentral] Reference