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abscissions

abscissions is the plural of abscission.

Meaning of abscission

Noun

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

  1. The act or process of cutting off.
    • Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off.
  3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
  4. The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.

Questions about abscissions

What is abscissions the plural of?
Abscissions is the plural of abscission.

Words near abscissions in the dictionary

  1. abscission layers
  2. abscission zone
  3. abscission zones
  4. abscissional
  5. abscissiones infiniti
  6. abscissions
  7. abscissæ
  8. absconce
  9. absconces
  10. abscond
  11. abscondancy

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