etiolated

[samvara]

To become blanched or whitened, as when grown without sunlight. Because I had to look it up and that doesn't happen very often anymore

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[cricketk.livejournal.com]

as when grown without sunlight.

Which is probably why I thought it meant - thin, weedy, sickly...

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Yeah I thought 'thin and weedy' too, but the context I read it in implied pale as well.