Etiolation vs Abscission - What's the difference?
etiolation | abscission |
(botany) growth process of plants grown in the absence of light, characterized by long, weak stems, fewer leaves and chlorosis
(botany) The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.
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.
In botany|lang=en terms the difference between etiolation and abscission
is that etiolation is (botany) the operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant while abscission is (botany) the natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.As nouns the difference between etiolation and abscission
is that etiolation is (botany) growth process of plants grown in the absence of light, characterized by long, weak stems, fewer leaves and chlorosis while abscission is the act or process of cutting off.etiolation
English
(wikipedia etiolation)Noun
(en noun)- (Dunglison)
abscission
English
(wikipedia abscission)Noun
(en noun)- Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
