Abscission vs. Dehiscence

Abscissionnoun

The act or process of cutting off.

Dehiscencenoun

(botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.

Abscissionnoun

(obsolete) The state of being cut off.

Dehiscencenoun

(medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.

Abscissionnoun

(rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly

Dehiscencenoun

(rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.

Abscissionnoun

(botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.

Dehiscencenoun

The act of gaping.

Abscissionnoun

The act or process of cutting off.

Dehiscencenoun

A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

Abscissionnoun

The state of being cut off.

Dehiscencenoun

(biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound

Abscissionnoun

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."

Abscissionnoun

shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

Abscissionnoun

the act of cutting something off

Abscission

Abscission (from Latin ab, , and scindere, ) is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed. In zoology, abscission is the intentional shedding of a body part, such as the shedding of a claw, husk, or the autotomy of a tail to evade a predator.

‘away’; ‘to cut'’;