abscission
IPA: ˈæbsˈɪʒʌn
noun
- The act or process of cutting off.
- (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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Examples of "abscission" in Sentences
- This process is called abscission.
- The man was caught due to abscission.
- The abscission layer is a greenish grayish color.
- This mechanism to shed leaves is called abscission.
- They may be used preferably for regulating fruit abscission.
- The gaseous plant hormone ethylene can stimulate abscission.
- Doubt discovered that ethylene stimulated abscission in 1917.
- He told me the abscission of the tongue was very common in the
- The loss of chlorophyll may also contribute to the abscission process.
- As in leaf shedding, an abscission layer forms and the branch is shed cleanly.
- In claws, this results in an abscission layer, and the old segment breaks off.
- Too much warm weather, no local frost yet, the poor abscission sp? layers are getting mixed signals.
- It was apparent that this early freeze came before the abscission layers were formed in the leaf bases or growth matured.
- -- Your sad predictions were well founded; the painful abscission has been made; we bore it at least with good sense and dignity.
- Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission
- Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission 13.
- On some trees, the petioles of last year's leaves were still attached to the dead twigs late the following summer, showing that the freeze occurred before the abscission layers had formed.
- Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.
- (I January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.