abstriction
US/æbˈstɹɪk.ʃn̩/
abstriction noun: a method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
Noun
abstriction (countable and uncountable, plural abstrictions)
- A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
abstriction meaning in Tamil and Bengali
abstriction in Tamil
- சுருங்கி அறுதல்
abstriction in Bengali
- অ্যাবজাংশন
Forms of abstriction
| plural | abstrictions |
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Origin of abstriction
From Latin ab- (“from, away, outside”) + strictio (“act of pressing together”), from strictus (“tightened”). Equivalent to abstrict + -ion.
Words that rhyme with abstriction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
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- fiction
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- renoviction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about abstriction
- What does abstriction mean?
- Abstriction means a method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
- What is abstriction in Tamil?
- Abstriction in Tamil is சுருங்கி அறுதல். See Abstriction meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is abstriction?
- Abstriction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce abstriction?
- Abstriction is pronounced /æbˈstɹɪk.ʃn̩/ (US).
- What is the plural of abstriction?
- The plural of abstriction is abstrictions.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: abstriction (page history and authors); abstriction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abstriction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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