Usually means: Sheds leaves annually, typically trees.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word deciduous:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. deciduous: Merriam-Webster
  2. deciduous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deciduous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deciduous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deciduous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deciduous, deciduous: Wordnik
  7. deciduous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deciduous: Wiktionary
  9. deciduous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deciduous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deciduous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deciduous: Dictionary.com
  13. deciduous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deciduous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deciduous (disambiguation), Deciduous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deciduous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deciduous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deciduous: Rhymezone
  19. Deciduous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deciduous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. deciduous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. deciduous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. deciduous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. deciduous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. deciduous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deciduous: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. deciduous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deciduous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. deciduous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  5. deciduous: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deciduous: A Word A Day

Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. deciduous: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  3. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  6. deciduous: Rhododendron Glossary
  7. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  8. Bryological (No longer online)
  9. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  10. Deciduous: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deciduous: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DECIDUOUS: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  4. Deciduous: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See deciduousness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (biology, anatomy) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.
adjective:  (botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
adjective:  (figurative) Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting.

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