Usually means: Separation of parts during development.
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  3. chorisis: Wordnik
  4. chorisis: Wiktionary
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  6. Chorisis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  8. chorisis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Chorisis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. chorisis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. chorisis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Chorisis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (botany) The separation of a leaf (or petal or sepal) into two more parts

Similar:
abscission, abscission layer, sepalody, dissepiment, chorion, anisophylly, apolysis, choriolysis, parastichy, ptyxis, more...

Opposite:
fusion, union, merger

Adjectives:
collateral, radial, lateral, median, tangential, second, proper, original

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Similar:
abscission, abscission layer, sepalody, dissepiment, chorion, anisophylly, apolysis, choriolysis, parastichy, ptyxis, more...

Opposite:
fusion, union, merger

Adjectives:
collateral, radial, lateral, median, tangential, second, proper, original



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