caducous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of a part of an organism, disappearing in the normal course of development.
    — 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.
  2. Tending to fall early.
    — caducous leaves

词形变化

more caducous comparative most caducous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
noncaducous

词源

Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).
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