[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To detach or separate by constriction of a part; to produce or release by abstriction. Usually in passive.

- To split off (from), especially by constriction of a part.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Alfred Bennett (1833–1902), botanist and publisher. From ab- + classical Latin strict-, past participial stem of stringere to bind, perhaps after abstriction