Usually means: Separation of leaves from plant.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscission: Merriam-Webster
  2. abscission: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abscission: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abscission: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abscission: Vocabulary.com
  6. abscission: Wordnik
  7. abscission: Wiktionary
  8. abscission: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abscission: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. abscission: Dictionary.com
  11. Abscission: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Abscission: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. abscission: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. abscission: Rhymezone
  15. Abscission: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. abscission: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. abscission: FreeDictionary.org
  18. abscission: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. abscission: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. abscission: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. abscission: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscission: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscission: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscission: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Abscission: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Abscission: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. abscission: Medical dictionary
  7. Abscission: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscission: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abscission)

noun:  The act or process of cutting off.
noun:  (obsolete) The state of being cut off.
noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
noun:  (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.

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