DECID'UOUS, adjective [Latin to fall.] Falling; not perennial or permanent. In botany, a deciduous leaf is one which falls in autumn; a deciduous calyx, is that which falls after the corol opens; distinguished from permanent.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.