A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

succisus,-a,-um (part. A): cut off or away, cut through, cut down; “abruptly broken off, or appearing to be so” (Lindley); abruptly broken off; cut across from below; hewn, mown, cut through; bitten off; “cut off below” (Stearn 1996) [> L. succido,-cidi,-cisum, 3. (sub-caedo): to cut off or away below, cut from below, to cut through, cut off, cut down, fell; see praemorsus,-a,-um (part.A);

- planta ab arboribus succisis lecta, plant collected from hewn trees.

- frumentum succusum, mown grain.

- segetes succisae, mown wheat fields.

- fragmenta lineam abscissionis secus succisa, fragments cut through along a line of abscission.

abscissus,-a,-um (part. A): cut off, steep, precipitous; cut off (with a sharp instrument).

Succisa,-ae (s.f.I), Devil’s-bit (i.e. -bite), “Name from succidere, to bite off, from the praemorse rootstock, once supposed to have been bitten off by Satan” (Fernald 1950); “from L. succido, cut off below; with reference to the truncate end of the rhizome, looking as if bitten off by the Devil. Dipsacaceae” (Stearn 1996).

“Scabiosa succisa is called the Devil's-bit Scabious, on account of its abruptly terminated rhizome or root” Bentley).