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Definition of Caducous
1. Adjective. Shed at an early stage of development. "The caducous calyx of a poppy"
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Deciduous
Antonyms: Persistent
Definition of Caducous
1. Adjective. (biology) Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Tending to fall early. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caducous
1. transitory; perishable [adj]
Medical Definition of Caducous
1. Falling off early. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caducous
Literary usage of Caducous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"Second durable element of religious morality: Love—Alteration of this element by
the addition of ideas of grace, predestination, damnation—caducous elements ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"... caducous scales of enamel and dentine in shallow cavities represent the incisor
dentition of ..."
3. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"Calyx 2-leaved, caducous: corol 4-petalled: stigma • broad disk, with radiating
lines: capsule 1-celled,. dehiscent by pore* under the permanent stigma. 27. ..."
4. Timber: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in All Its Aspects, Commercial and by Paul Charpentier, Joseph Kennell, tr (1902)
"INDIGENOUS OAKS WITH caducous LEAVES. OAK WITH SESSILE ACORNS, ... Oaks are
divided into two classes: those having caducous leaves (which are lost in ..."
5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"273), the bracts arc minute and caducous or abortive, and the ramification complete
with all the flower-buds well formed before the oldest expand, ..."
6. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"OF caducous TESTAMENTARY GIFTS.] 1 A testamentary gift which, for some reason or
other, he to whom it was left has failed to take, although so left that ..."
7. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Trees or shrubs with alternate petioled simple leaves, caducous Staminale aments
pendulous, the flowers in clusters of 3 in the axil of each bract, ..."
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