Definitions
(of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin dēciduus (“falling down or off”), from dēcidō (“to fall down or off”) + -uus.
Used in a sentence
“In the Hippoidea there is generally the full series of 44 teeth, but the first premolar is often deciduous or wanting in the lower or in both jaws.”
“. Compare caducous.”
“a deciduous tree”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Drops leaves yearly”9 letters
02“Seasonally shedding”9 letters
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