caducous
91deciduous — a. (Bot.) Non perennial, temporary, caducous …
92abscission — Physiological process in which a corky cell layer forms across an axis, cutting off water and nutrient supply to the distal portion and resulting in its loss, as in loss of a leaf, leaf like organ, or section of stem. See also caducous,… …
93armor — Colloquial, referring to a collection of persistent leaf bases that ‘protect’ a caudex. Cf. caducous …
94persistent — Remaining attached; not falling off, e.g. the leaf bases of Ceratozamia. Cf. caducous …
95brief — adj 1. momentary, temporary, of short duration, short; impermanent, mortal, unenduring, fleeting, passing, fading; transitory, transient, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, monohemerous, monemerous, evanescent, ephemeral; mercurial, volatile,… …
96ephemeral — adj short lived, momentary, temporary, brief, of short duration; impermanent, mortal, unen during, fleeting, passing, fading; evanescent, transient, transitory, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, mono hemerous …
97hasty — adj 1. quick, rapid, swift, fleet, fast, brisk; prompt, expeditious, instantaneous, immediate; rushing, hurried, running, urgent, winged, light footed, light legged, light of heel, eagle winged, quick as lightning, quick as a wink, swift as an… …
98mortal — adj 1. temporal, transitory, fleeting, flitting, transient, passing; ephemeral, short lived, temporary, impermanent, Med. monohemerous; evanescent, momentary, fugitive, fugacious; perishable, caducous. 2. human, earthborn, earthly; terrestrial,… …
99passing — adj 1. elapsing, lapsing, expiring, departing, dying; dwindling, disappearing, fading, evaporating, fading away; slipping away, flitting, streaming, gliding by, going by, running its course, becoming a thing of the past, running out; proceeding,… …
100perishable — adj destructible, decayable, decomposable, biodegradable; undurable, fragile, frail, weak, delicate; impermanent, transitory, caducous, fugacious, transient, temporary, temporal; momentary, short lived, ephemeral, evanescent, volatile, passing,… …
