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caducous

[ kuh-doo-kuhs, -dyoo- ]

adjective

  1. Botany. dropping off very early, as leaves.
  2. Zoology. subject to shedding.


caducous

/ 办蓹藞诲箩耻藧办蓹蝉 /

adjective

  1. biology (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

caducous

  1. 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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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of caducous1

First recorded in 1675鈥85 for obsolete sense; 1805鈥10 for current senses; from Latin 肠补诲奴肠耻蝉 鈥渦nsteady, perishable,鈥 equivalent to cad(ere) 鈥渢o fall鈥 + -奴肠耻蝉 adjective suffix ( -ous )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of caducous1

C17: from Latin 肠补诲奴肠耻蝉 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.鈥擳rees with milky juice, alternate entire pinnately veined leaves, caducous stipules, axillary peduncles, and stout axillary spines.

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Sepals.鈥擳hree; 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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