A surgical or horticultural cutting instrument designed specifically for cutting plant shoots.
From 'cion' (plant shoot) + Greek 'tomē' (cutting). A specialized tool term combining the plant part with the instrument-naming suffix.
Tools named with '-tome' (scalpel, keratome, phlebotome) typically belong to surgery, so 'cionotome' is a fascinating border case—a horticultural tool dressed up in surgeon's Latin.
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