Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the annual falling of leafy twigs instead of individual leaves, such as takes place in many of the cypress family.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The regular shedding branches by a plant, for clonal reproduction, "self-pruning" or in response to stress.
Etymologies
- clado- + ptosis (Wiktionary)
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Logolepsy
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clado-, clad-
of or relating to a branch or branching
cladogram, cladistics, cladophyll, cladode, cladocera, cladoptosis, cladonia, clade, cladoceran, cladrastis, cladose
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Words that I used to know.
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Because I Like Them : C --- D
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jmjarmstrong JM loves to stick it out through the cladoptosis season. Feb 14, 2011