Caducous

Word CADUCOUS
Character 8
Hyphenation ca du cous
Pronunciations /kəˈdjuːkəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Caducous"

What do we mean by caducous?

Dropping off or shedding at an early stage of development, as the gills of most amphibians or the sepals or stipules of certain plants. adjective

Having a tendency to fall or decay.

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development. adjective

Tending to fall early. adjective

Shed at an early stage of development adjective

Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development.

Tending to fall early.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Caducous

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The word "caducous" in example sentences

As “cloud racks up” above the lake, the poem racks up definitions for oligotrophic, eutrophic, caducous, absyssal, meanings for Toronto and Ontario. ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

The first and the second glumes are unequal, persistent or separately caducous. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous, that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

-- A slender, twining plant with leaves 3 'by 1', opposite, oval, acute, entire, long petioles and caducous stipules. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

-- A tree, 4-6 meters high, with drooping limbs; leaves long, very narrow, abruptly pinnate; many caducous leaflets, linear, elliptical. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Calyx with 5 erect segments, imbricated, caducous. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5-7 with long common petiole. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Furthermore, the horns -- or rather antlers -- of the deer are caducous, shedding annually; while those of the antelopes are persistent, remaining throughout the life-time of the animal -- as with goats, sheep, and oxen. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

He is exceedingly well formed and graceful; his horns are not so large as those of the stag, but, like his, they are annually caducous, falling off in the winter and returning in the spring. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

They are annually caducous, however, as with the common deer, so that these immense appendages are the growth of ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Along with these, and nearly related to them, are found several species of Cassia, having from two to four or five pairs of foliola which are narrow, but their footstalks are without vertical compression, and their foliola are caducous, chiefly in those, however, which have only two pairs. ❋ Charles Sturt (1832)

Cassiae closely allied to the aphyllous species; they have only one pair of foliola which are caducous, and whose persistent footstalk is more or less vertically compressed. ❋ Charles Sturt (1832)

Papaver and Epimedium are inftances of the caducous calyx: Aclcea and Thr. liclriim, of caducous petals. — ❋ Unknown (1793)

10: 39: Five straight correct answers, none of which I've ever heard of: inconcinnity, scalare, caducous, venturi and forzato. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like that caducous thingy, you know, it’s got two snakes and wings and someone must really have been on serious ’shrooms to have thought of that as the symbol of medicine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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