abscission

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/, /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1859, Jeremy Taylor, The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume, page 286:

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

• abscisions

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sjɔ̃/

abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

• “abscission” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).