| 单词 | deciduous |
| 释义 | deciduous (once / 8968 pages) adj Hemlock, blue spruce, and white pine are all evergreens. These trees have leaves throughout the year. Oak, maple, and elm are examples of deciduous trees. They lose their foliage in the fall and grow new leaves in the spring. Trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials that shed their leaves for part of the year are categorized by botanists as deciduous. In temperate and polar regions, these plants are generally bare during the cold of winter. In other parts of the world, deciduous plants lose their leaves during the dry part of the year. The word deciduous can also be used to describe parts of the body, such as a deer's antlers or human baby teeth, that are cast off seasonally or at a particular period of development. WORD FAMILYdeciduous: deciduously USAGE EXAMPLESSAT Walk to explore mosses and lichens of the park, deciduous and evergreen trees, wildlife preparations for winter, 10 a.m. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) Not breathtaking, but calm and orderly, its hills flecked with tall deciduous trees and clapboard houses, its harbor ringed with low-slung, rocky islands. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) They burn through the night, through the now-desiccated tinder of deciduous forests accustomed to wet, humid summers and autumns. Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016) 1adj (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season Syn|Ant broad-leafed, broad-leaved, broadleaf having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves evergreen (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year cone-bearing, coniferousof or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves half-evergreen, semi-evergreenof a plant that is incompletely evergreen 2adj (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth deciduous teeth Syn caducous, shed shed at an early stage of development |
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