[ US /ˌdɪˈsɪdʒuəs/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɪdjuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth
    deciduous teeth
  2. (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
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How To Use deciduous In A Sentence

  • This deciduous vine is grown for its gorgeous autumn colour rather than its fruit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some deciduous trees, such as many maples and oaks, can be pruned to allow more light to reach the ground.
  • North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
  • Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • South Africa supplies most of its deciduous fruit (apples, pears, plums and peaches) to Europe.
  • Autumn is when deciduous small trees and shrubs really earn their keep. Times, Sunday Times
  • The species grows as a partially herbaceous deciduous vine, with fairly pale green, somewhat cut foliage and campanulate light rose-purple flowers.
  • The plantation produces both conifers and deciduous trees for the Christmas tree and landscape markets.
  • Some mangrove stands are close to tropophilous semi-deciduous seasonal forests, characterized by one or two strata, and heights from 5 to 8 m, with emergent individuals up to 10-12 m. Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
  • The thin leaves of deciduous trees and herbs would be scorched, so they were not evolved. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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