How To Use Abscise In A Sentence

The seeds and any abscised siliques were collected from plastic collars around the plant.
As the ovules developed, they eventually abscised and fell out, leaving the cupules empty.
In several species the flowers never close, as the petals abscise when the flower is still open.
The levels of heavy metals in abscised leaves are also raised, and they are clearly there to be excreted rather than stored. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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.

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In several species the flowers never close, as the petals abscise when the flower is still open.
In the present experiments, flower closure was not observed in any of the families in which petals abscise.
For example, petals may wilt and abscise more rapidly after pollen deposition on the stigma or pollen tube growth through the style.