ABSCISS
\ɐbsˈɪs], \ɐbsˈɪs], \ɐ_b_s_ˈɪ_s]\
Definitions of ABSCISS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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[Latin] Appl. layer of meristematic cells just outside cork-layer, to whom fall of leaves, floral parts, fruits, and certain branches is due; abscissile.
By J.H. Kenneth
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ab'sis, ABSCISSA, ab-sis'sa, n. the straight line cut off or intercepted between the vertex of a curve and an ordinate, measured along the principal axis:--pl. ABSCISS'ES, ABSCISS'Æ, ABSCISS'AS. [L. abscissus, cut off, pa.p. of abscind[)e]re--ab, from, scind[)e]re, to cut.]
By Thomas Davidson