abscission
NounSynonyms:
cutting off
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plantType of shedding, sloughing
- the act of cutting something offSynonyms: cutting offType of removal, remotionKinds circumcision
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ab·scis′sion (…), noun
Origin: L. abscissio. See Abscind.
1. The act or process of cutting off. “Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.” Taylor, Jeremy
2. The state of being cut off. Sir Thomas Browne
3. Rhetoric A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity — but I need say no more.”
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54