What is the difference between abscise and abscission?
abscise | abscission |
To cut off.
(botany) To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off.
The act or process of cutting off.
* 1859 , , The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume , page 286:
(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.
Abscise is a related term of abscission.
As a verb abscise
is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to cut off {{defdate|first attested in the early 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =8| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As a noun abscission is
the act or process of cutting off.abscise
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(abscission) (en-verb)References
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* ----abscission
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(wikipedia abscission)Noun
(en noun)- Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.