Meanings
noun
- archaicA falling off or falling out: shedding.
decidence of wool
3 more examples
decidence of teeth
decidence of an animal's winter coat
men, observing the decidence of their horns
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latindecidens“falling off”
- Englishdecidence
Latin decidens (“falling off”).
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