Definition of deciduous in English:

deciduous

adjective dɪˈsɪdjʊəsdɪˈsɪdʒuəs

1(of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually.
（树木，灌木）每年落叶的。常与EVERGREEN 相对
sun-loving deciduous trees like aspen
Often contrasted with evergreen
Example sentencesExamples
- Common lilacs are hardy deciduous shrubs with heart-shaped leaves of deep green.
- Underlying all of this autumn colour are the changing concentrations of different coloured pigments in the leaves of deciduous trees.
- The cool, crisp pinks and blues of the sky in this picture convey a feeling of autumn that is sparked by the yellow flash of the lone deciduous tree, its green leaves having turned to a brilliant gold.
- Finally, in the case of deciduous trees, pruning when the leaves are off will give you a better idea of how your pruning will affect the shape of the tree.
- Even without leaves, many deciduous shrubs and trees display bright fruits or bark.
- Evergreen leaves exposed to UV-B generally increase in thickness and lignin content, whereas deciduous leaves tend to become thinner.
- Don't rake leaves from beneath all your deciduous trees.
- The kapok is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that has attractive leaves and clusters of yellow, white or pink flowers.
- See for yourself by driving or bicycling Stockton's finest tree-lined streets any time after the first of April, when deciduous trees unfurl their leaves.
- The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season.
- Established plants can be moved, of course, and autumn is as good a time as any to relocate herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs and small trees.
- Like the snowdrop, all three will naturalise beneath trees and deciduous shrubs and give years of delight.
- Being a deciduous shrub, lemon verbena will drop its leaves for a few months during the winter.
- While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers.
- For a short while, as the leaves turn on deciduous trees and shrubs, autumn colours command the stage.
- Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment.
- All it takes to bring fall color to a corner of your garden is a few flame-foliaged shrubs, some late-season perennials, and perhaps a small-scale deciduous tree with gold or bronze red leaves.
- The trees were mainly deciduous, losing their leaves in the autumn.
- Whilst deciduous trees and shrubs lie dormant for the winter, the garden itself never stays still, and the need for planning and preparation for the following year continues.
- Most of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves by mid-December.
1. 1.1informal (of a tree or shrub) broadleaved.
  〈非正式〉（树木，灌木）阔叶的
2. 1.2 Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time.
  （乳牙）脱落的
  this is the period when the deciduous teeth are being shed
  Example sentencesExamples
  By the age of 3 the deciduous teeth are fully formed and by the age of 6 the first permanent teeth appear by displacing their predecessors.
  Children normally develop a set of 20 deciduous teeth, which appear after six months of life and generally are replaced, one tooth at a time, between age 6 and 12.
  The first teeth (also known as milk teeth or deciduous teeth) normally start to break through the gum from at around six to nine months old.
  They did not explain why adult feeding behavior could not be achieved with a smaller deciduous dentition.
  However, the rate of wear in the deciduous teeth seems more or less linear, suggesting a systematic error in the age estimates of the juveniles.

Derivatives

deciduously

adverb

As we pass Glenhead, we can think of writers such as McCormick and Cockett and savour the solitude offered by this deciduously wooded glade.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the end, the climate defeated them and all, or most, of the trees behaved, and still behave, deciduously.
- Best grown in bright conditions and it will tolerate a slight frost when it will behave deciduously.
- In the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, sea buckthorn, which is a thorny nitrogen-fixing deciduously perennial shrub, has been widely used in forest restoration as the pioneer species.
- It is mostly evergreen, but during severe winters or in areas that suffer from frost, it will react deciduously, dying back and then recovering beautifully again in the spring.

deciduousness

noun

The New Zealand deciduous trees are as a whole characterised by very irregular leaf-shedding, and great variation is found in the degree of deciduousness shown by individuals of the same species growing in different parts of the country.
Example sentencesExamples
- The flooded area had greater deciduousness because it has a proportionally greater number of totally or partially deciduous species.
- Overall light absorption by the whole canopy remains high despite deciduousness in the overstorey.
- Winters were long and dark in those days and trees needed to have mechanisms to survive… so deciduousness in those conditions was a real benefit.
- At the same microsite, deciduousness may vary from year to year by 2-3 months with the time of the last and first rains of the wet season.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Latin deciduus (from decidere 'fall down or off') + -ous.

Rhymes

assiduous

Definition of deciduous in US English:

deciduous

adjectivedɪˈsɪdʒuəsdiˈsijo͞oəs

1(of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually.
（树木，灌木）每年落叶的。常与EVERGREEN 相对
sun-loving deciduous trees like aspen
Often contrasted with evergreen
Example sentencesExamples
- Common lilacs are hardy deciduous shrubs with heart-shaped leaves of deep green.
- The kapok is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that has attractive leaves and clusters of yellow, white or pink flowers.
- All it takes to bring fall color to a corner of your garden is a few flame-foliaged shrubs, some late-season perennials, and perhaps a small-scale deciduous tree with gold or bronze red leaves.
- Whilst deciduous trees and shrubs lie dormant for the winter, the garden itself never stays still, and the need for planning and preparation for the following year continues.
- Evergreen leaves exposed to UV-B generally increase in thickness and lignin content, whereas deciduous leaves tend to become thinner.
- While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers.
- The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season.
- Being a deciduous shrub, lemon verbena will drop its leaves for a few months during the winter.
- For a short while, as the leaves turn on deciduous trees and shrubs, autumn colours command the stage.
- Don't rake leaves from beneath all your deciduous trees.
- Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment.
- Like the snowdrop, all three will naturalise beneath trees and deciduous shrubs and give years of delight.
- Finally, in the case of deciduous trees, pruning when the leaves are off will give you a better idea of how your pruning will affect the shape of the tree.
- Even without leaves, many deciduous shrubs and trees display bright fruits or bark.
- The trees were mainly deciduous, losing their leaves in the autumn.
- Underlying all of this autumn colour are the changing concentrations of different coloured pigments in the leaves of deciduous trees.
- See for yourself by driving or bicycling Stockton's finest tree-lined streets any time after the first of April, when deciduous trees unfurl their leaves.
- Most of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves by mid-December.
- The cool, crisp pinks and blues of the sky in this picture convey a feeling of autumn that is sparked by the yellow flash of the lone deciduous tree, its green leaves having turned to a brilliant gold.
- Established plants can be moved, of course, and autumn is as good a time as any to relocate herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs and small trees.
1. 1.1informal (of a tree or shrub) broadleaved.
  〈非正式〉（树木，灌木）阔叶的
2. 1.2 Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time.
  （乳牙）脱落的
  this is the period when the deciduous teeth are being shed
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first teeth (also known as milk teeth or deciduous teeth) normally start to break through the gum from at around six to nine months old.
  However, the rate of wear in the deciduous teeth seems more or less linear, suggesting a systematic error in the age estimates of the juveniles.
  They did not explain why adult feeding behavior could not be achieved with a smaller deciduous dentition.
  By the age of 3 the deciduous teeth are fully formed and by the age of 6 the first permanent teeth appear by displacing their predecessors.
  Children normally develop a set of 20 deciduous teeth, which appear after six months of life and generally are replaced, one tooth at a time, between age 6 and 12.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Latin deciduus (from decidere ‘fall down or off’) + -ous.

单词	deciduous
释义	Definition of deciduous in English: deciduous adjective dɪˈsɪdjʊəsdɪˈsɪdʒuəs 1(of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually. （树木，灌木）每年落叶的。常与EVERGREEN 相对 sun-loving deciduous trees like aspen Often contrasted with evergreen Example sentencesExamples Common lilacs are hardy deciduous shrubs with heart-shaped leaves of deep green. Underlying all of this autumn colour are the changing concentrations of different coloured pigments in the leaves of deciduous trees. The cool, crisp pinks and blues of the sky in this picture convey a feeling of autumn that is sparked by the yellow flash of the lone deciduous tree, its green leaves having turned to a brilliant gold. Finally, in the case of deciduous trees, pruning when the leaves are off will give you a better idea of how your pruning will affect the shape of the tree. Even without leaves, many deciduous shrubs and trees display bright fruits or bark. Evergreen leaves exposed to UV-B generally increase in thickness and lignin content, whereas deciduous leaves tend to become thinner. Don't rake leaves from beneath all your deciduous trees. The kapok is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that has attractive leaves and clusters of yellow, white or pink flowers. See for yourself by driving or bicycling Stockton's finest tree-lined streets any time after the first of April, when deciduous trees unfurl their leaves. The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season. Established plants can be moved, of course, and autumn is as good a time as any to relocate herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs and small trees. Like the snowdrop, all three will naturalise beneath trees and deciduous shrubs and give years of delight. Being a deciduous shrub, lemon verbena will drop its leaves for a few months during the winter. While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers. For a short while, as the leaves turn on deciduous trees and shrubs, autumn colours command the stage. Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment. All it takes to bring fall color to a corner of your garden is a few flame-foliaged shrubs, some late-season perennials, and perhaps a small-scale deciduous tree with gold or bronze red leaves. The trees were mainly deciduous, losing their leaves in the autumn. Whilst deciduous trees and shrubs lie dormant for the winter, the garden itself never stays still, and the need for planning and preparation for the following year continues. Most of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves by mid-December. 1.1informal (of a tree or shrub) broadleaved. 〈非正式〉（树木，灌木）阔叶的 1.2 Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time. （乳牙）脱落的 this is the period when the deciduous teeth are being shed Example sentencesExamples By the age of 3 the deciduous teeth are fully formed and by the age of 6 the first permanent teeth appear by displacing their predecessors. Children normally develop a set of 20 deciduous teeth, which appear after six months of life and generally are replaced, one tooth at a time, between age 6 and 12. The first teeth (also known as milk teeth or deciduous teeth) normally start to break through the gum from at around six to nine months old. They did not explain why adult feeding behavior could not be achieved with a smaller deciduous dentition. However, the rate of wear in the deciduous teeth seems more or less linear, suggesting a systematic error in the age estimates of the juveniles. Derivatives deciduously adverb As we pass Glenhead, we can think of writers such as McCormick and Cockett and savour the solitude offered by this deciduously wooded glade. Example sentencesExamples In the end, the climate defeated them and all, or most, of the trees behaved, and still behave, deciduously. Best grown in bright conditions and it will tolerate a slight frost when it will behave deciduously. In the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, sea buckthorn, which is a thorny nitrogen-fixing deciduously perennial shrub, has been widely used in forest restoration as the pioneer species. It is mostly evergreen, but during severe winters or in areas that suffer from frost, it will react deciduously, dying back and then recovering beautifully again in the spring. deciduousness noun The New Zealand deciduous trees are as a whole characterised by very irregular leaf-shedding, and great variation is found in the degree of deciduousness shown by individuals of the same species growing in different parts of the country. Example sentencesExamples The flooded area had greater deciduousness because it has a proportionally greater number of totally or partially deciduous species. Overall light absorption by the whole canopy remains high despite deciduousness in the overstorey. Winters were long and dark in those days and trees needed to have mechanisms to survive… so deciduousness in those conditions was a real benefit. At the same microsite, deciduousness may vary from year to year by 2-3 months with the time of the last and first rains of the wet season. Origin Late 17th century: from Latin deciduus (from decidere 'fall down or off') + -ous. Rhymes assiduous Definition of deciduous in US English: deciduous adjectivedɪˈsɪdʒuəsdiˈsijo͞oəs 1(of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually. （树木，灌木）每年落叶的。常与EVERGREEN 相对 sun-loving deciduous trees like aspen Often contrasted with evergreen Example sentencesExamples Common lilacs are hardy deciduous shrubs with heart-shaped leaves of deep green. The kapok is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that has attractive leaves and clusters of yellow, white or pink flowers. All it takes to bring fall color to a corner of your garden is a few flame-foliaged shrubs, some late-season perennials, and perhaps a small-scale deciduous tree with gold or bronze red leaves. Whilst deciduous trees and shrubs lie dormant for the winter, the garden itself never stays still, and the need for planning and preparation for the following year continues. Evergreen leaves exposed to UV-B generally increase in thickness and lignin content, whereas deciduous leaves tend to become thinner. While the peonies described above are herbaceous perennials, an interesting variation of the genus are the tree peonies, deciduous shrubs with lovely foliage and flowers. The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season. Being a deciduous shrub, lemon verbena will drop its leaves for a few months during the winter. For a short while, as the leaves turn on deciduous trees and shrubs, autumn colours command the stage. Don't rake leaves from beneath all your deciduous trees. Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment. Like the snowdrop, all three will naturalise beneath trees and deciduous shrubs and give years of delight. Finally, in the case of deciduous trees, pruning when the leaves are off will give you a better idea of how your pruning will affect the shape of the tree. Even without leaves, many deciduous shrubs and trees display bright fruits or bark. The trees were mainly deciduous, losing their leaves in the autumn. Underlying all of this autumn colour are the changing concentrations of different coloured pigments in the leaves of deciduous trees. See for yourself by driving or bicycling Stockton's finest tree-lined streets any time after the first of April, when deciduous trees unfurl their leaves. Most of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves by mid-December. The cool, crisp pinks and blues of the sky in this picture convey a feeling of autumn that is sparked by the yellow flash of the lone deciduous tree, its green leaves having turned to a brilliant gold. Established plants can be moved, of course, and autumn is as good a time as any to relocate herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs and small trees. 1.1informal (of a tree or shrub) broadleaved. 〈非正式〉（树木，灌木）阔叶的 1.2 Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time. （乳牙）脱落的 this is the period when the deciduous teeth are being shed Example sentencesExamples The first teeth (also known as milk teeth or deciduous teeth) normally start to break through the gum from at around six to nine months old. However, the rate of wear in the deciduous teeth seems more or less linear, suggesting a systematic error in the age estimates of the juveniles. They did not explain why adult feeding behavior could not be achieved with a smaller deciduous dentition. By the age of 3 the deciduous teeth are fully formed and by the age of 6 the first permanent teeth appear by displacing their predecessors. Children normally develop a set of 20 deciduous teeth, which appear after six months of life and generally are replaced, one tooth at a time, between age 6 and 12. Origin Late 17th century: from Latin deciduus (from decidere ‘fall down or off’) + -ous.
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