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Noun
/abˈsiZHən/,
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abscissions, plural;
  1. The natural detachment of parts of a plant, typically dead leaves and ripe fruit

  1. shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
  2. the act of cutting something off
  3. Abscission (from the Latin ab meaning away and scindere meaning to cut) is the shedding of a body part. ...
  4. The act or process of cutting off; The state of being cut off. - Sir T. Browne; A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly; The separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole
  5. separation, as of conidia from a conidiophore.
  6. The rejection of plant organs, such as the shedding of leaves during the autumn.
  7. Of plants: The shedding of leaves or other parts as the result of physical weakness in a specialized layer of cells (abscission layer) that develops at the base. (21)
  8. the normal separation of fruit and leaves from plants by the development of a thin layer of pithy cells at the base of their stems.
  9. the normal shedding from a plant of an organ that is mature or aged, e.g. a ripe fruit, an old leaf. adj. abscissile.
  10. (adj. abscissile). The separation of leaves from a plant. This process is controlled primarily by 3 compounds, namely auxin, ethylene and abscisic acid.
  11. The dropping of leaves, flowers, or fruit by a plant. This can result from natural growth processes (e.g., fruit ripening) or from external factors such as temperature or chemicals.
  12. From the Latin Abscissio, cut off. Used in horary astrology to describe the interruption or cutting off of an incomplete aspect between two planets by a faster-moving third planet, which aspects either of the first two planets before their aspect reaches partile. ...
  13. The normal shedding of leaves, flowers or fruit from a plant at a special separation layer