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Caducous

Definition: Caducous

Caducous

Adjective

1. (biology) shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caducous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Synonym: Caducous

Synonym: shed (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: persistent (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Caducous

English words defined with "caducous": shed. (references)
Etymologies containing "caducous": Caducary, Caduke. (references)

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Modern Translations: Caducous

Language Translations for "caducous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i dobët nga pleqëria. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متساقط (flurried). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рано падащ, преходен (deciduous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, passing, temporal, temporary, transient, transit, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podléhající zkáze. (various references)

   

Danish

  

forgaengelig. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

caducus, vergankelijk. (various references)

   

French

  

caduc. (various references)

   

German

  

caducus. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσωρινός (provisional, temporary). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tünékeny (evanescent, transient, transitory), tűnő (evanescent, transient), röpke (ephemeral, flighty, flitting, flying), pusztuló (dilapidated), pusztulásnak indult (caduceus), múlékony (deciduous, evanescent, fugacious, fugitive, unabiding), lehulló, futó (bickering, bishop, cursorial, passing, runner, running, track and field events, transient). (various references)

   

Italian

  

caduco (ephemeral, frail). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tuittymagh (accident, crumbling, epileptic; disagreement, falling; accidental, tottering). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aducouscay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

caduco (decayed, deciduous, decrepit, dilapidated, effete, expiry, fugacious, impoverished, lapsed, lapsus, rickety). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

caduc, cãzãtor (cadent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рано опадающий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prolazan (brief, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, momentary, negotiable, passable, passing, perishable, pervious, temporary, transient, transitory), koji rano otpada. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caduco (caducean, deciduous). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förgänglig (corruptible, evanescent, mortal, perishable, transient). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що рано опада", тимчасовий (ambulatory, casual, extempore, improvised, interim, jury, makeshift, provisional, provisory, seasonal, stopgap, temporal, temporary). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không bền (fugitive, fungous, labile, unabiding, undurable), gi cỗi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Caducous"

Words rhyming with "caducous" (pronounced 'Ca*du"cous'): Aduncous, Amurcous, Anasarcous, Anticous, Bifurcous, Bisulcous, Couscous, Dicoccous, Dioicous, Exsuccous, Exuccous, fuscous, Glaucous, Juncous, Leucous, Molluscous, Monoicous, Mucous, Noctilucous, Obuncous, Ochroleucous, Opacous, Pentacoccous, Petulcous, Polymeniscous, raucous, Rebucous, Rescous, Sarcous, Semiopacous, Spicous, Subfuscous, Submucous, Tetracoccous, Tricoccous, Uncous, Viscous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Caducous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-o-s-u-u"

-2 letters: caucus.

-3 letters: cocas, codas, scudo.

-4 letters: ados, cads, coca, coda, cods, cuds, docs, duos, ocas, ouds, scad, scud, soda, udos.

-5 letters: ado, ads, cad, cod, cos, cud, doc, dos, duo, oca, ods, oud, sac, sad, sau, sod, sou, udo.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-o-s-u-u"
 

+4 letters: succedaneous, unaccustomed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Caducous


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 64 75 63 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -..    ..-    -.-.    ---    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01100100 01110101 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0064 0075 0063 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767708769818785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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