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English
Etymology
From Latin ab (“by”) + stringō (“to draw tight”)[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
abstrict (third-person singular simple present abstricts, present participle abstricting, simple past and past participle abstricted)
- (transitive, biology, mycology) To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 8