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caducous

ADJECTIVE
  1. shed at an early stage of development
    the caducous calyx of a poppy
    most amphibians have caducous gills

How To Use caducous In A Sentence

  • The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
  • The caducous trees prevail, such as ñire, lenga, rauli and pellín oak, although there are also perennial trees such as cypress, and canas, rushes, etc.
  • the caducous calyx of a poppy
  • Calyx with 5 erect segments, imbricated, caducous. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • As “cloud racks up” above the lake, the poem racks up definitions for oligotrophic, eutrophic, caducous, absyssal, meanings for Toronto and Ontario. Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie
  • 10: 39: Five straight correct answers, none of which I've ever heard of: inconcinnity, scalare, caducous, venturi and forzato. Spelling Bee semifinals, live
  • -- A tree, 4-6 meters high, with drooping limbs; leaves long, very narrow, abruptly pinnate; many caducous leaflets, linear, elliptical. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • It had aseptate hyphae and sporangia were papillate, both caducous and non-caducous, and their shape ranged from ovoid to elongate and distorted.
  • 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. VIII. English Traits. Character
  • Reproduction and dispersion are doubtless accomplished by the caducous branchlets.
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