English

Verb

abscise ‎(third-person singular simple present abscises, present participle abscising, simple past and past participle abscised)

1. (transitive) To cut off. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
2. (intransitive, botany) To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off. [First attested in the early 20^th century.]^[1]

Translations

References

1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 8

Anagrams

• scabies

Latin

Adjective

abscīse

1. vocative masculine singular of abscīsus

References

• abscise in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press