caducous

/kəˈdjuːkəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

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adj

"The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes."
"caducous leaves"

Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).

more caducous (comparative) most caducous (superlative)

caducously noncaducous

shed

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The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈdjuːkəs/.

What does caducous mean?

Where does caducous come from?

Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).

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