caducous

How To Use caducous In A Sentence

• Reproduction and dispersion are doubtless accomplished by the caducous branchlets.
• In the poppy family, the sepals are caducous.
• -- A slender, twining plant with leaves 3 'by 1', opposite, oval, acute, entire, long petioles and caducous stipules. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
• Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
• Leaves alternate, compound, digitate, caducous; leaflets 5-7 with long common petiole. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
• The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• most amphibians have caducous gills
• The first and the second glumes are unequal, persistent or separately caducous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• He states that the verification of the occurrence of bracteoles could be useful, because there is a tendency to use ‘absent’ for ‘caducous’, which could lead to erroneous conclusions.
• The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.