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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).
abscission From the web:
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taxonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
- taxonomics
- (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy
Coordinate terms
- nomenclature
- ontology
Derived terms
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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