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101quick — adj 1. prompt, immediate, sudden, instantaneous, expeditious; rapid, speedy, swift, fast, fleet; express, light footed, nimble footed, winged; flying, hurried, precipitate, headlong; hasty, cursory, summary, perfunctory. 2. brief, fleeting,… …
102short-lived — adj momentary, temporary, of brief duration, impermanent, mortal, unenduring, brief, fleeting, passing, fading, transitory, transient, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, Both Med. monohemer ous, monemerous; evanescent, ephemeral, mercurial, volatile …
103transient — adj transitory, impermanent, temporary, temporal, fly by night; brief, short, short lived, momentary, here today and gone tomorrow; ephemeral, evanescent, volatile, passing, fleeting, meteoric; fugitive, fugacious, fading, flitting, vanishing;… …
104caducity — /kəˈdjusəti/ (say kuh dyoohsuhtee) noun 1. the infirmity of old age; senility. 2. frailty; transitoriness. {French caducité. See caducous} …
105caducity — [kə do͞o′sə tē, kədyo͞o′sə tē] n. [Fr caducité < LL caducitas < L caducus: see CADUCOUS] 1. the quality or state of being perishable 2. senility …
106biological science — noun the science that studies living organisms • Syn: ↑biology • Derivationally related forms: ↑biologic (for: ↑biology), ↑biological (for: ↑biology), ↑ …
107oenocarpus — ˌēnəˈkärpəs noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from oen + carpus : a genus of So. American pinnate leaved palms that have a slender spadix which resembles a broom, a woody double caducous spathe, and edible black or purplish oily fruit …
108ca|du|cous — «kuh DOO kuhs, DYOO », adjective. 1. Botany. a) having a tendency to fall. b) dropping off very early, as the sepals of the poppy, which fall at once on the opening of the flower; fugacious (contrasted with persistent ). 2. Zoology. having to do… …
