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.

simple past tense and past participle of absciss

present participle of absciss

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absciss

plural of abscission zone

plural of abscission layer

(botany) A layer of cells in a plant that differ from those above and below, and contain abundant starch and dense cytoplasm, which upon disorganization, begin the process of abscission, or the natural separation of the leaf from the rest of the plant.