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DECIDUOUS PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deciduous plant mean?
• DECIDUOUS PLANT (noun)
The noun DECIDUOUS PLANT has 1 sense:
1. a plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing season
Familiarity information: DECIDUOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant having foliage that is shed annually at the end of the growing season
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("deciduous plant" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
Antonym:
evergreen plant (a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year)
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