DECIDUOUS


Meaning of DECIDUOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a deciduous forest (= with trees that lose their leaves in winter )

a deciduous forest of red oak trees

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

forest

Once the Cotswolds had probably all consisted of entirely deciduous forest , with beech the dominant tree.

The herbs on the floor of the deciduous forest must hurry with their flowering before the canopy closes.

As another exam-ple, the border between deciduous forest and wildflower prairie in the midwest is remarkably impermeable.

tree

It appears that deciduous trees do not acidify in this way.

Devoid of leaves, the deciduous trees look bare from a distance.

There are virtually no deciduous trees , aside from a few beeches seen half way along the Strait near the modern coaling-station of Punta Arenas.

If deciduous trees gain control, then there is first browse for hare, then deer, then moose.

I kick off with an idea for a shady border under a deciduous tree .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As another exam-ple, the border between deciduous forest and wildflower prairie in the midwest is remarkably impermeable.

At the time that the land was transferred in 1996, approximately 30ha were under citrus and deciduous fruit orchards.

Creepers grew on the walls; deciduous , they stretched out their bare stems in a complicated network like barbed wire.

Fact: It contains our largest relatively unbroken block of deciduous woodland.

If deciduous trees gain control, then there is first browse for hare, then deer, then moose.

Jays are the restless, truly deciduous woodland dwellers of the crow tribe.

Once upon a time the world was deciduous and now it was not.

Secondly, the deciduous woodland that eventually takes over has a rather surprising composition.

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