abstriction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ab- (“from, away, outside”) + strictio (“act of pressing together”), from strictus (“tightened”).[1] Equivalent to abstrict + -ion.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.