Abscission: Definition with Abscission Pictures and Photos

1. Noun. Shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant.

Generic synonyms: Shedding, Sloughing

2. Noun. The act of cutting something off.

Exact synonyms: Cutting Off
Generic synonyms: Remotion, Removal
Specialized synonyms: Circumcision
Derivative terms: Abscise

1. n. The act or process of cutting off.

1. Noun. The act or process of cutting off. ¹

2. Noun. (context: rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly ¹

3. Noun. (context: botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

1. [n -S]

1. The normal shedding from a plant of an organ that is mature or aged, for example a ripe fruit, an old leaf. Adj. Abscissile. (09 Oct 1997)

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