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caducous
[ kuh-doo-kuhs, -dyoo- ]
adjective
- Botany. dropping off very early, as leaves.
- Zoology. subject to shedding.
caducous
/ əˈːə /
adjective
- biology (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
caducous
- Detaching or dropping off at an early stage of development. The gills of most amphibians and the sepals or stipules of certain plants are caducous.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of caducous1
C17: from Latin ūܲ falling, from cadere to fall
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They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous.
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Embryo recurved.—Trees with milky juice, alternate entire pinnately veined leaves, caducous stipules, axillary peduncles, and stout axillary spines.
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Sepals.—Three; strongly arched, covered with bristly appressed hairs; caducous.
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Calyx, 5 rounded sepals, tuberculate at the base, imbricated, caducous.
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The first and the second glumes are unequal, persistent or separately caducous.
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