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Ablation vs Suncup - What's the difference?

ablation | suncup |

As nouns the difference between ablation and suncup

is that ablation is a carrying or taking away; removal while suncup is the evening primrose.

ablation

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
  • (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
  • (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.
  • (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.
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    suncup

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The evening primrose.
  • * 2008 , Jean Rusmore, Bay Area Ridge Trail
  • In spring, this meadow glows with bright orange California poppies and yellow suncups ; by summer, golden oat grass covers the sloping fields.
  • A bowl-shaped open depression in a snow surface, formed by ablation.