0 past simple and past participle of wilt
1 (of a plant) to become weak and begin to bend towards the ground, or (of a person) to become weaker, tired, or less confident:
Dead seedlings and t hose with wilted leaves were also discarded.
The number of wilted and dead seedlings per replicate was corrected to take into account variation between the three experiments.
After 27 days, wilted and dead seedlings were counted in each replicate.
At this stage, water-stressed plants were visibly wilted and smaller (leaf length and dry weight) than the well-watered control plants.
In most cases, therefore, the non-mycorrhizal plants had visibly wilted after eight days without watering.
There may have been wilted or dead plants there, but not phylloxera.
Male and female flowers opened a t dawn and stayed open for 2-3 d, before they wilted and dropped off t he tree.
Surveying involved searching for seedlings with wilted leaves, or the brown stems of dead seedlings that had lost their leaves.
