caducous

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caducous

/kəˈdjuːkəs/

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Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).

adjective more caducous · most caducous

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 persiste
Tending to fall early. caducous leaves

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@misc{caducous_2026,
  title = {caducous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/caducous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}