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Abscission

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of cutting off.

n. Botany The shedding of leaves, flowers, or fruits following the formation of the abscission zone.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or process of cutting off.

n. A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or process of cutting off.

n. The state of being cut off.

n. 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.”

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of cutting off; severance; removal.

n. The act of putting an end to; the act of annulling or abolishing. Sir T. Browne.

n. Retrenchment.

n. The sudden termination of a disease by death. Hooper, Med. Dict.

n. In rhetoric, a figure of speech consisting in a sudden reticence, as if the words already spoken made sufficiently clear what the speaker would say if he were to finish the sentence: as, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and such generosity—but I need say no more.”

n. In astrology, the cutting off or preventing of anything shown by one aspect by means of another.

n. the act of cutting something off

n. shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

Word Usage

"Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission 13."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shedding sloughing

Cross Reference

abscission of the cornea