Deciduous
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
deciduous
adj 1: (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the
growing season [ant: {evergreen}]
2: (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period
of growth; "deciduous teeth"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deciduous \De*cid"u*ous\ (?; 135), a. [L. deciduus, fr. dec?dere
to fall off; de- + cadere to fall. See {Chance}.] (Biol.)
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain
season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves
(except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals,
such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or
parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous
trees; the deciduous membrane.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "deciduous":
arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical,
arboriform, brittle, bushlike, bushy, capricious, changeable,
citrous, collapsing, coniferous, corruptible, declining,
declivitous, decurrent, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid,
descendant, descending, down, down-reaching, downcoming,
downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping,
dropping, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evergreen, fading, falling,
fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail,
fugacious, fugitive, half-hardy, hardwood, hardy, impermanent,
impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal,
mutable, nondeciduous, nondurable, nonpermanent, on the descendant,
on the downgrade, passing, perennial, perishable, piny, plummeting,
plunging, sagging, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, setting,
short-lived, shrubby, shrublike, sinking, softwood, submerging,
subsiding, temporal, temporary, tottering, transient, transitive,
transitory, treelike, tumbledown, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
volatile
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