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deciduous

1. Botany (of trees and shrubs) shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves
2. Zoology (of antlers, wings, teeth, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth
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deciduous

[di′sij·ə·wəs]
(biology)
Falling off or being shed at the end of the growing period or season.
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deciduous

Descriptive of trees or shrubs, usually of temperate climates, that shed their leaves annually; characteristic of most hardwoods and a few softwoods.
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Hence, if I and II were both demonstrative syllogisms (in the strict sense of the term), the attributes deciduousness and being a broad-leaved tree would be "mutually explanatory" ([phrase omitted], 98b17).
The climatic variations, especially precipitation and evapotranspiration, determine, along with the physiological behavior of the deciduous species and the edaphic conditions, the moment when the deciduousness increases and the leaf production is reduced and the period in which the deciduousness is reduced and the leaf production is increased.
In the northern temperate zone, we often find the opposite of the trend in deciduousness seen in the tropics.
This study of a humid, eucalypt savanna in northern Australia identified a range of leaf phenologies, with respect to the degree of deciduousness, the timing of the major leaf phenophases, and the degree of synchrony both within and between species.
Variations in social wasp nesting occurrence are seemingly not related to the deciduousness of the plant and its architectural patterns, with the exception of Synoeca cyanea (Fabricius, 1775), which possesses astelocyttarus type nests.
However, various botanists have noticed that in Mexico, shrubs of Forchhammeria have green leaves during the dry months when other vegetation in the dty scrub habitats of Forchhammeria show drought deciduousness in foliage.
The variables that best explained differences in floristics were found to be related to the level of deciduousness. This provided a better explanation of the differences in the vegetation than the current classification of Cattinga versus Cerrado vegetation.
To maintain high biomass in a strongly seasonal environment in which water is temporarily limiting to tree growth and nutrient cycles (i.e., deciduousness), and phosphorus is putatively limiting to the ecosystem (Gartlan et al.
This lack of a buffer zone along the managed edges, summed to deciduousness of the forest itself, creates what are essentially "edge conditions" throughout the entire fragment.
The main objectives of this paper were: i) identifying differences on the structure and parameters of flora, such as basal area, number of trees, richness and diversity in both sectors; and ii) investigating differences on the functional traits having leaf deciduousness and dispersal mechanism as a basis.
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