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What (who) is abscission - definition
THE SHEDDING OF VARIOUS PARTS OF AN ORGANISM
Abscission layer; Abscission zone; Separation layer; Absciss; 🍃; 🍂; Abscise; Abscission (botany)
![This [[Pomegranate]] [[bonsai]] is going through abscission in the fall. After rebsorption of nutrients in preparation for winter, the yellowed leaves die off and drop.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pomegranate Bonsai in Fall.jpg?width=200 "This [[Pomegranate]] [[bonsai]] is going through abscission in the fall. After rebsorption of nutrients in preparation for winter, the yellowed leaves die off and drop.")
Abscission
·noun The state of being cut off.
II. Abscission ·noun The act or process of cutting off.
III. Abscission ·noun 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.".
abscission
[?b's??(?)n]
¦ noun Botany the process by which parts of a plant break off naturally, e.g. dead leaves.
Derivatives
abscise ?b's??z verb
Origin
C17: from L. abscissio(n-), from abscindere, from ab- 'off' + scindere 'to cut'.
Abscission
Abscission () is the shedding of various parts of an organism], such as a [[plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed. In zoology, abscission is the intentional shedding of a body part, such as the shedding of a claw, husk, or the autotomy of a tail to evade a predator.
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Abscission
Abscission (from Latin ab- 'away', and scindere 'to cut') is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed. In zoology, abscission is the intentional shedding of a body part, such as the shedding of a claw, husk, or the autotomy of a tail to evade a predator. In mycology, it is the liberation of a fungal spore. In cell biology, abscission refers to the separation of two daughter cells at the completion of cytokinesis.
