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abscission
noun ((plural): abscissions)
  1. The act or process of cutting off.
Quotations
  • Not to be cured without the abscission of a member. - w:Jeremy Taylor, Jer. Taylor
    1. The state of being cut off. - Sir T. Browne
    2. 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."
    3. (botany) The separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
Etymology: Latin abscissio. See abscind

     
 
  

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