Associations to the word «Abscise»
Wiktionary
ABSCISE, verb. (transitive) To cut off. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
ABSCISE, verb. (intransitive) (botany) To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
Dictionary definition
ABSCISE, verb. Shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue.
ABSCISE, verb. Remove or separate by abscission.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.