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caducous

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ca·du·cous  (k-dks, -dy-)
adj.
Dropping off or shedding at an early stage of development, as the gills of most amphibians or the sepals or stipules of certain plants.

[From Latin cadcus, falling, from cadere, to fall; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]

caducous [kəˈdjuːkəs]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
[from Latin cadūcus falling, from cadere to fall]

caducous  (k-dks)
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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.caducous - shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy"
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
lasting, persistent - retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"


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He’s a mystery: Sensitive to a fault to the memories of hurt and the passions of childish cruelty, he also sprinkles his book with eccentric verbiage: levitant, cracaleured, horrent, cinereal, glair, torsion, caducous, velutinous, bosky and so on.
Caducous stipules, not seen; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface glabrous throughout domatia when present, of pouch to pit type.
due to the possession of caducous leaves and long attachment of the leaf lobule to the stem.
 
 
 
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