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ab⋅scise

  [ab-sahyz]
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–verb (used without object), -scised, -scis⋅ing. Botany.
to separate by abscission, as a leaf from a stem.
Origin:
1605–15; < L abscīsus cut off (ptp. of abscīdere), equiv. to abs- abs- + -cīdere, comb. form of caedere to cut
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ab·scise   (āb-sīz')   
v.   ab·scised, ab·scis·ing, ab·scis·es

v.   tr.
To cut off; remove.
v.   intr.
To shed by abscission.

[Latin abscindere, absciss- : ab-, away; see ab-1 + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]
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