different between abscisic vs abscission
abscisic
English
Etymology
abscise +? -ic
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æb?s?.s?k/
Adjective
abscisic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to abscisic acid or its derivatives. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
Related terms
- abscission
References
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abscission
English
Etymology
From Latin abscissi?, from abscind? (“I cut, I tear”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æb?s?.?n?/, /æb?s?.?n?/
Noun
abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)
- The act or process of cutting off.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17th century.]
- (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. [First attested in the late 19th century.]
Usage notes
Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.
Related terms
- abscise
- abscisic
- abscisic acid
- abscisin, abscissin
Translations
Anagrams
- abscisions
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.si.sj??/
Noun
abscission f (plural abscissions)
- (botany) abscission
Further reading
- “abscission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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