abjoint, v. Biol.
(æbˈdʒɔɪnt)
[f. ab- + joint v.]
trans. To separate by formation of a joint or partition, as the cells and spores in certain fungi. So abˈjunction, the process of such separation.
| 1887 Garnsey tr. K. Goebel's Outl. Classif. Plants 83 The non-motile cells are the result of abjunction. Ibid., The extremity of which [sterigmata]..enlarges, and is then abjointed as a gonidium. 1889 E. S. Bastin College Botany 313 Conidia..formed from hyphae by the separation of cells in succession from their free ends—a process called abjunction. |