deciduousin a sentence
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It took me a while to figure out that when she said deciduous teeth, she was referring to baby teeth.
deciduous = teeth shed at the end of a period of growth
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We were in the eastern deciduous forests.
deciduous = describing trees that lose their leaves at the end of the growing season
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Deciduous trees are an interesting topic, I guess.
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deciduous = shedding leaves after the growing season
- Primary ecology is deciduous rain forest.† (source)
- The bare deciduous trees were russet with buds, while new blades of grass began to push up between last year's dead stalks.† (source)
- He planned also to coat the beach with fallen oak and maple leaves to signify the fact that Columbus landed in autumn, even though live palms and dead deciduous leaves were not precisely compatible.† (source)
- Which I assumed meant hot in the dialect of deciduous fruit.† (source)
- On the surface it seemed that nothing had changed other than the winter's stripping of the deciduous trees and the white shroud of snow that blanketed the surroundings.† (source)
- He says that the wild turkey, once abundant in the deciduous forests in these regions, is far more intelligent and can elude even practiced hunters.† (source)
- The autumn had already clearly marked the frontiers between the coniferous and the deciduous trees.† (source)
- She is only a world-famous writer who wrote three Pulitzer Prize books about the deciduous trees of South Carolina. (source)
- League after league of trees sailed by underneath them, with little variation save for clusters of deciduous trees—oaks and elms and birch and aspen and languorous willows—which often lined the waterways below.† (source)
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- Deciduous trees-oaks and beeches and maples-dominated the outer parts of the forest, but farther in, Eragon knew, they gave way to the forbidding pine trees that formed the bulk of the woods.† (source)
- The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system.† (source)
- Under foot the leaves were dry, and the foliage of some holly bushes which grew among the deciduous trees was dense enough to keep off draughts.† (source)
- The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coat of paint, seemed to shiver in the wind that had risen with the ceasing of the snow.† (source)
- Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.† (source)
- Most deciduously.† (source)
- THE YEWS: (Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their skinny arms aging and swaying) Deciduously!† (source)
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