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

plural of abscission

Alternative form of abscissa

(transitive) To cut off by abscission. / (intransitive) To separate (as a leaf from a twig) by abscission.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absciss

simple past tense and past participle of absciss

present participle of absciss

(botany) The area in a plant's leaf, stem, or fruit stalk, where the abscission layer if formed along with weakened sclerenchyma, absent collenchyma, and dense cytoplasm.

plural of abscission zone

plural of abscission layer