- Back-formation from abscission. (Wiktionary) “George Crabb in
1823 defined co-ordinates now dropping its hyphen as “a term
applied to the absciss and ordinates when taken in connexion,”
later better known as the magnitudes that determine the position
of a point; geographers and navigators still later used
coordinates to describe the use of longitude and latitude in
locating a spot on the globe.” “As soon as a majority of the
catkins began to shed their pollen or to absciss their full
developed anthers, the catkins were removed and dried on a sheet
of smooth paper at room temperature until the pollen was shed.”
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