caducus

Woody species have long tap roots, swollen storage organs, and waxy caducus leaves.

Madagascar spiny thickets 2008

CADUCOUS (Lat. _caducus_), a botanical term for "falling early," as the sepals of a poppy, before the petals expand.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

/An old English name for epilepsy (Lat. _morbus caducus_, German _fallende Sucht_) used by North in translating Plutarch.

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590

Gffibus tamen tuendis hifce ab infultu prope Stans lapis caducus. index, & rudi: fculptum manu - 85

Poema Alexandri Pope De homine, Jacobi Thomson [the Hymn from The seasons], & Thomae Gray ... 1785

Hoc loco homo naturam in genere often - dit: nam omnis homo temporaneus & mortalis, fa - cile marcefceqs & caducus.

Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine 1784

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