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deciduous
/dɪˈsɪd͡ʒ.u.əs/
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What does deciduous mean?
adjective
- Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.
- Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
- (figuratively) Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈsɪd͡ʒ.u.əs/
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You can prune French prunes and other deciduous trees at any time during the winter that is most convenient to you.
Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.
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This is a tall deciduous shrub, with oblong and tomentose leaves, and flowers in loose, terminal panicles and produced freely in August.
But the flowering trees increase in number and importance until, in the closing period of Mesozoic time, we have trees with deciduous leaves.
Cleveland describes a discharge of an anomalous deciduous membrane during pregnancy which was probably from the unimpregnated half of a double uterus.