verb
- to cut off or separate, especially by natural processes
Usage: technical; biology
Examples
- The tree will abscise its leaves in autumn.
- Plants abscise damaged parts to prevent disease spread.
- The fruit abscised from the branch when ripe.
- Hormonal changes cause the plant to abscise old flowers.
- The surgeon had to abscise the infected tissue.
- Many trees abscise their branches during drought conditions.