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Abscission

//æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of cutting off. countable, uncountable

    "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member."

  2. 2
    the act of cutting something off wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being cut off. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant wordnet
  5. 5
    A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō (“I cut, I tear”).

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