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ABSCISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abscission mean? 

ABSCISSION (noun)
  The noun ABSCISSION has 2 senses:

1. shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plantplay

2. the act of cutting something offplay

  Familiarity information: ABSCISSION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABSCISSION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("abscission" is a kind of...):

shedding; sloughing (the process whereby something is shed)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of cutting something off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abscission; cutting off

Hypernyms ("abscission" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abscission"):

circumcision (the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males)

Derivation:

abscise (remove or separate by abscission)


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