caducifolious

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adjective

Having deciduous leaves

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivecaducifolious (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving deciduous leaves
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    With a^([sic]) 8,514,877 km² territory size and six biomes (Amazon Forest (humid broad leaf forest), Caatinga (small woody and herbaceous deciduous, caducifolious, spiny species), Cerrado (open tree and shrub woodland [19 ]), Atlantic Forest (costal forest), Pantanal (tropical swampland) and Pampa (grasslands)) Brazil has records of just 17 species of these arachnids in all biomes, except in the Pampa where amblypygids are not found.

    2016 February 18, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From Latin caducus (“that easily falls”) + folium (“leaf”).

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