deciduate
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deciduate¹
- /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ UK
Where it comes from
From decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
adjective
- Having, or characterized by, a decidua. deciduate placenta
deciduate²
- /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ UK
Where it comes from
From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
noun deciduates
- An animal that sheds a decidua. In the non-deciduates this relation is one of simple contact; but this same relation has been likewise observed in mammiferous deciduates, whether they have the zonarial or the discoidal form of placenta.
deciduate³
- /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ UK
Where it comes from
From decidua + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
verb deciduates · deciduating · deciduated
- To shed or release (a part of itself). In favorable situations, the shrub carries leaves throughout the year, but more often it largely deciduates in the spring dry season .
- To be shed or released from what (the subject) was originally part of. The Pythagorean Monad was not, therefore,to his mind, an abstraction in which no personality inhered; but a true living God, out of which All is, and in whom All exists; the eternal Being, out of which Existence springs, and from which Life, in its individual and personal forms, deciduates.
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