Usually means: Shedding early; not permanently retained.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. caducous: Merriam-Webster
  2. caducous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caducous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caducous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caducous: Vocabulary.com
  6. caducous: Wordnik
  7. caducous: Wiktionary
  8. caducous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caducous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. caducous: Dictionary.com
  11. Caducous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Caducous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. caducous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. caducous: Rhymezone
  15. Caducous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. caducous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. caducous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. caducous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. caducous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caducous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Caducous: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caducous)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development.
▸ adjective:  (botany) Tending to fall early.

Similar:
shed, deciduous, caducifolious, evanescent, truncate, brevideciduous, apodous, postgenital, indeciduate, annual, more...

Opposite:
persistent, evergreen, perennial

Adjectives:
small, stipules, early, lanceolate, flowered, long, ovate, acute

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Similar:
shed, deciduous, caducifolious, evanescent, truncate, brevideciduous, apodous, postgenital, indeciduate, annual, more...

Opposite:
persistent, evergreen, perennial

Adjectives:
small, stipules, early, lanceolate, flowered, long, ovate, acute



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