the process of breaking off or separating at the base; the action of severing through constriction.
From abstrict + -ing present participle suffix. Describes the ongoing process of separation through constriction.
The word 'abstricting' appears almost exclusively in mycology and mycobiology papers—it's the precise technical term for how fungi launch their spores into the air to travel to new homes.
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