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Abscission   Listen
Abscission

noun
1.
Shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant.
2.
The act of cutting something off.  Synonym: cutting off.





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... N. subtraction, subduction^; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation^; abstraction &c (taking) 789; garbling, &c v.. mutilation, detruncation^; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment &c 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease &c 36; abrasion. V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... a tearing away, or cutting off; a term used sometimes in prosody for the elision of a vowel before another, and in surgery especially for abscission of the cornea, or the removal of that portion of the eyeball situated in front of the attachments of the recti muscles; in botany, the separation of spores by elimination ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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