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caducous

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Latincadūcus(falling; transitory).

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caducous (comparativemorecaducous,superlativemostcaducous)

  1. (biology) Of a part of an organism,disappearing in the normal course ofdevelopment.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page 4:
      The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed someFrullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, andNeohattoria hascaducous lobules but persistent lobes.
  2. (botany) Tending tofallearly.
    caducous leaves

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