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de·cid·u·ous

(dĭ-sĭj′o͞o-əs)
adj.
1. Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season: deciduous trees.
2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: deciduous antlers; deciduous leaves.
3. Of or relating to the primary teeth.
[From Latin dēciduus, from dēcidere, to fall off : dē-, de- + cadere, to fall; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]
de·cid′u·ous·ly adv.
de·cid′u·ous·ness n.
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deciduous

(dɪˈsɪdjʊəs)
adj
1. (Botany) (of trees and shrubs) shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves. Compare evergreen 1
2. (Zoology) (of antlers, wings, teeth, etc) being shed at the end of a period of growth
3. rare impermanent; transitory. Compare evergreen 2
[C17: from Latin dēciduus falling off, from dēcidere to fall down, from cadere to fall]
deˈciduously adv
deˈciduousness n
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de•cid•u•ous

(dɪˈsɪdʒ u əs)

adj.
1. shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
2. falling off or shed at a particular season, stage of growth, etc., as leaves, horns, or teeth.
3. impermanent; transitory.
[1650–60; < Latin dēciduus tending to fall, falling derivative of dēcid(ere) to fall off, down (dē- de- + -cidere, comb. form of cadere to fall)]
de•cid′u•ous•ly, adv.
de•cid′u•ous•ness, n.
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de·cid·u·ous

(dĭ-sĭj′o͞o-əs)
1. Shedding leaves at the end of a growing season and regrowing them at the beginning of the next growing season. Most deciduous plants bear flowers and have woody stems and broad rather than needle-like leaves. Maples, oaks, elms, and aspens are deciduous. Compare evergreen.
2. Falling off or shed at a particular season or stage of growth: Deer have deciduous antlers.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj. 1. deciduous - (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
evergreen - (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year
2. deciduous - (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth"
caducous, shed - shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy"
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Translations
مُتَساقِط، مُتَناثِر
opadavý
løvfældende
lombhullató
sumargrænn
lapuotis
lapu
opadávajúci
yapraklarını döken

deciduous

[dɪˈsɪdjʊəs] ADJ [tree] → de hoja caduca
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deciduous

[dɪˈsɪdjʊəs] adj [tree] → à feuilles caduques
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

deciduous

adj leaves → die jedes Jahr abfallen ; antlers → das abgeworfen wird ; deciduous tree/forest → Laubbaum m → /-wald m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

deciduous

[dɪˈsɪdjʊəs] adj → deciduo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

deciduous

(diˈsidjuəs) , ((American) -dʒuəs) adjective
(of trees) having leaves that fall in autumn. Oaks are deciduous trees. bladwisselend مُتَساقِط، مُتَناثِر широколистен decíduo opadavý Laub-... løvfældende φυλλοβόλος de hoja caduca heitlehine برگریز؛ خزانگر lehtensä varistava décidu נשיר पर्णपाती listopadno drvo lombhullató rontok sumargrænn deciduo, caduco 落葉性の 낙엽성의 lapuotis lapu (koks) meluruhkan daun loof- løv zrzucający liście تو ييدونكى (لكه په منى كى دپاڼو): موقتى decíduo foios листопадный opadávajúci listnat listopadan lövfällande ซึ่งผลัดใบ (sonbaharda) yapraklarını döken (在成熟期或一定季節)脫落的 такий, що періодично втрачає листя وہ درخت جن کے پتے پتجھڑ کے موسم میں گر جاتے ہیں kỳ rụng lá (在成熟期或一定季节)脱落的
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de·cid·u·ous

a. deciduo-a, de permanencia temporal;
___ dentition → primera dentición;
___ teeth → dientes ___ -s, dientes de leche.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

deciduous

adj (dent) deciduo
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Annual and perennial plants, deciduous and evergreen trees, plants inhabiting different stations and fitted for extremely different climates, can often be crossed with ease.
Great diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together.
Under foot the leaves were dry, and the foliage of some holly bushes which grew among the deciduous trees was dense enough to keep off draughts.
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While the river margin was richly fringed with trees of deciduous foliage, the rough uplands were crowned by majestic pines, and firs of gigantic size, some towering to the height of between two and three hundred feet, with proportionate circumference.
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At last they discover that all which at first drew them together,--those once sacred features, that magical play of charms,--was deciduous, had a prospective end, like the scaffolding by which the house was built; and the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage, foreseen and prepared from the first, and wholly above their consciousness.
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The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coat of paint, seemed to shiver in the wind that had risen with the ceasing of the snow.
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Both of them bear to the evergreen vegetation of these climates the same kind of relation which laurels and hollies in England do to the lighter green of the deciduous trees.
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Therefore, in the present study, we aim to develop a protocol for the isolation and culture of dental pulp stem cells from permanent and deciduous teeth with a long term goal of their use in regenerative medicine applications.
Isolation and culture of dental pulp stem cells from permanent and deciduous teeth
The occurrence of sequelae may be associated with several factors, such as the age of the child at the time of trauma, the degree of root resorption of the injured deciduous tooth, the type and extent of the injury, and the stage of development of the permanent tooth germ (Altun, Cehreli, Guven, & Acikel, 2009; Carvalho, Jacomo, & Campos, 2010; Amorim, Estrela, & Costa, 2011; Gungor, Pucman, & Uysal, 2011; Costa et al., 2016).
Dental trauma and itssequelae in deciduous and permanent teeth--Longitudinal study
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Rich in nectar, this hardy deciduous shrub attracts butterflies, bees and other insects.
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