abstrict

English

Etymology

From Latin ab (“by”) + stringō (“to draw tight”)[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /æbˈstɹɪkt/

Verb

abstrict (third-person singular simple present abstricts, present participle abstricting, simple past and past participle abstricted)

  1. (transitive, biology, mycology) To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint

References
  1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
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