Index of English words, starting with "ch"

(1) - Chlorosis (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
(2) - Chlorosis (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

(1) - Chlorotic (a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

(1) - Chlorous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
(2) - Chlorous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.