ABSCISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abscise mean? 

• ABSCISE (verb)
  The verb ABSCISE has 2 senses:

1. shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue

2. remove or separate by abscission

  Familiarity information: ABSCISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSCISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abscise    ... he / she / it abscises   
Past simple: abscised   
Past participle: abscised   
-ing form: abscising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "abscise" is one way to...):

cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off (get rid of)

Verb group:

abscise (remove or separate by abscission)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove or separate by abscission

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "abscise" is one way to...):

chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)

Verb group:

abscise (shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

abscission (the act of cutting something off)