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What is the difference between abscise and abscission?

abscise | abscission |

Abscise is a related term of abscission.


As a verb abscise

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As a noun abscission is

the act or process of cutting off.

abscise

English

Verb

(abscission) (en-verb)
  • To cut off.
  • (botany) To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off.
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    abscission

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of cutting off.
  • * 1859 , , The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume , page 286:
  • Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
  • (obsolete) The state of being cut off.
  • (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
  • (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
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    Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

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