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English
Etymology
From Latin ab- (“from, away, outside”) + strictio (“act of pressing together”), from strictus (“tightened”).[1] Equivalent to abstrict + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
abstriction (countable and uncountable, plural abstrictions)
- (biology, mycology) A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
- Hypernym: abscission
References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 8