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caducous

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caducous [′kad·ə·kəs]
(botany)
Lasting on a plant only a short time before falling off.
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He’s a mystery: Sensitive to a fault to the memories of hurt and the passions of childish cruelty, he also sprinkles his book with eccentric verbiage: levitant, cracaleured, horrent, cinereal, glair, torsion, caducous, velutinous, bosky and so on.
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Caducous stipules, not seen; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface glabrous throughout domatia when present, of pouch to pit type.
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due to the possession of caducous leaves and long attachment of the leaf lobule to the stem.
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