abscission -
shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
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Wiktionary
Substantiv
abscission -
The act or process of cutting off.
abscission -
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly.
Wikipedia
Abscission (from the Latin ab meaning away and scindere meaning to cut) is the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process by which a plant drops one or more of its parts, such as a leaf, fruit, flower or seed, though the term is also used to describe the shedding of a claw by an animal, and is also the word used to describe the separation of daughter cells at the end of cytokinesis, a process that generally begins immediately following mitotic telophase.
