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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 seasonplay

  Familiarity information: DECIDUOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DECIDUOUS PLANT (noun)


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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