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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.