Deciduous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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