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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: abscission (0.01678 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to abscission.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: abscission
abscission
n 1: shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation
of scar tissue in a plant
2: the act of cutting something off [syn:
cutting off]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Abscission
Abscission
\Ab*scis"sion\, n. [L. abscissio. See
Abscind.]
1. The act or process of cutting off.
“Not to be cured
without the abscission of a member.” --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
2. The state of being cut off. --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Rhet.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having
begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus,
“He is a man
of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but
I need say no more.”
[1913 Webster]
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