abscise
/əbˈsʌɪz
/verb [with object]
1Cut off or away.
1.1 [no object] Botany Separate by abscission; fall off.For example, petals may wilt and abscise more rapidly after pollen deposition on the stigma or pollen tube growth through the style....
- The last bract on the spikelet axis has been removed from around the terminal flower, which has an aborted carpel with a two-branched stigma and the filaments of the two stamens, the anthers having abscised.
- In several species the flowers never close, as the petals abscise when the flower is still open.
- go to rack (or wrack) and ruin
- go to sea
- go to show (or prove)
- go to sleep
- go to smash
- go to someone's head
- go to the devil!
- go to the dogs
- go to the mat
- go to the pack
- go to the stake for
- go to the wall
- go to the wars
- go to town
- go to war
- go to waste
- gotta
- gotten
- GOTV
- gouache
- open traverse
- open-tread
- Open University
- open up
- open vegetation