Deciduous

Definition: Deciduous

Deciduous

Adjective

1. (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season.

2. (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth".

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

Date "deciduous" was first used: 1688. (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

Science

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Descent

Adjective: descending; Verb: descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall.

Deterioration

At a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall; (destruction); tottering;. (dangerous) : past cure; (hopeless); fatigued; retrograde; (retrogressive); deleterious.

Transientness

Temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.

Crosswords: Deciduous

Sand Castle III: Deciduous Descendants (2001)

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Books

• A Walk in the Deciduous Forest (Johnson, Rebecca L. Biomes of North America.) (reference)

• Deciduous Forests (reference)

• Eastern Deciduous Forest: Ecology and Wildlife Conservation (Wildlife Habitats, Vol 4) (reference)

• Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice-Age Refuges into the Greenhouse World (reference)

• Life in a Deciduous Forest (Ecosystems in Action) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. Coniferous and deciduous trees co-exist in the Oregon coastal lowlands. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pond cypress or prairie sentinel - Taxodium ascendens. A deciduous conifer with upright growing needles. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Multi-row farmstead windbreak in Pocahontas County, Iowa, includes shrubs, conifers, and deciduous trees. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Rye grass growing after a burn that was seeded for erosion control and cover in a stand of cedar and deciduous trees. Oklahoma. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

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Health

In eastern states, ticks are associated with deciduous forest and habitat containing leaf litter. (references)

During an average year, about 75 cases of LAC encephalitis are reported to the CDC. Most cases of LAC encephalitis occur in children under 16 years of age. LAC virus is a Bunyavirus and is a zoonotic pathogen cycled between the daytime-biting treehole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus, and vertebrate amplifier hosts (chipmunks, tree squirrels) in deciduous forest habitats. (references)

Business

The average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth in deciduous (primary) teeth for children 5-10 years of age declined significantly from 1989-1996. Disease experience in permanent dentition (adult teeth) in this age group has also declined. (references)

Wheat, grain sorghum, groundnuts, sunflower seed, sugar cane, tobacco, hay and cotton, together with maize, are the most important field crops, while wine grapes, deciduous fruit, citrus, sub tropical fruit and vegetables are the main horticultural products. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

Venezuela does not produce fresh deciduous fruit. (references)

Dominican Rep

The import value for fresh apples and other deciduous fruits for 2000 were estimated at US$7 million, a record. (references)

South Africa

Major crops include citrus and deciduous fruits, corn, wheat, dairy products, sugarcane, tobacco, wine, and wool. (references)

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Expressions using "deciduous": deciduous forest ♦ deciduous holly ♦ deciduous nature ♦ deciduous plant ♦ deciduous teeth ♦ deciduous tooth ♦ deciduous vs evergreen. Additional references.

Ending with "deciduous": semi-deciduous.

Albanian

i qumeshtit, gjethor (leafy), gjetherënës. (various references)

Bulgarian 

широколистен (broad leaved), краткотраен (ephemeral, fleeting, fugacious, momentary, perishable, rapid, short, transitory, unabiding), листопаден, преходен (caducous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, passing, temporal, temporary, transient, transit, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding). (various references)

Chinese 

落叶 (Defoliate, Defoliated). (various references)

Czech

opadavý. (various references)

Danish

loevfaeldende, løvfældende. (various references)

Dutch

natuurlijke afscheiding, loofverliezend, afvallend. (various references)

Farsi 

یکدهم لیتر, گیاهی که درزمستان برگ میریزد, برگریز. (various references)

Finnish

vuosittain varistava, vuosittain variseva, kesävihanta kasvi, kesävihanta. (various references)

French

décidu, plante décidue, plante à feuilles caduques, plante à feuillage caduc, caducifolié, caduc (decayed, decrepit). (various references)

German

abfallend (apostatizing, falling off, seceding, sloping, sloppily). (various references)

Greek 

φυλλοβόλος. (various references)

Hebrew 

נושר. (various references)

Hungarian

lombhullató, nem állandó (caducous, impermanent), agancsváltó. (various references)

Italian

deciduo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落葉樹 (deciduous tree). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

らくようじゅ (deciduous tree). (various references)

Manx

yn-lhoamey. (various references)

Pig Latin

eciduousday.(various references)

Portuguese

caduco (caducous, decayed, decrepit, dilapidated, effete, expired, fugacious, impoverished, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Romanian

foios (foliated, manyplies, psalterium), cu frunze cãzãtoare, care cade. (various references)

Russian 

листопадный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

listopadan. (various references)

Spanish

caduco (caducean, caducous). (various references)

Swedish

lövfällande, avfallande. (various references)

Turkish

dökülen (effusive, pouring out, tributary, weeping), yaprak döken, geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), belli dönemlerde dökülen. (various references)

Ukrainian

що періодично скидається, молочний (lacteal, lactescent, lactic, mammary, milch, milky), листяний (foliar, leafy), листопадний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tạm thời (momentary, momently, precarious, provisional, temporary, transitory). (various references)

deciduus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deciduous": deciduousness, deciduousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deciduous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decciduous, decidious, decidiuous, decidous, deciduos, deciduus, dedciduous, desidous, desiduous, dessiduous, diciduous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cuddies, discoed.

-3 letters: cosied, cuddie, didoes, diodes, disced, doused, escudo.

-4 letters: cedis, coded, codes, coeds, cosie, coude, decos, diced, dices, didos, diode, disco, dosed, douce, douse, duces, dudes, eidos, scudi, scudo, sided, sodic.

-5 letters: cedi, code, cods, coed, cuds, cued, cues, deco, dice, dido, died, dies, disc, docs, does, dose, duce, duci, dude, duds.

+4 letters: deciduousness, undiscouraged.