evergreenadjective
relating to body parts that fall out or fall off and are replaced by new ones, for example a child's or young animal's first teeth （身体组织）脱落的

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trees - general words
arboreal
barky
black walnut
bosky
burl
burr
dendro-
dendrophile
emergent
evergreen
ironwood
old growth
palmy
sapling
shade tree
state tree
timberline
treetop
walnut
weeping

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Relating to particular parts of the body

Examples from literature

A very ornamental deciduous shrub, but often green throughout the winter. 
He wished me to alternate the planting with deciduous trees. 
The forests are evergreen—mainly firs and cedars—and on the streets here are maple and other deciduous trees. 
The leaves—lance-shaped, smooth, and deciduous—appear after the flowers. 
This is a wide-spreading tree with deciduous foliage, and armed with spines along the branches. 

deciduous | American Dictionary

deciduous
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/dɪˈsɪdʒ·u·əs/
biology
(of a tree) losing its leaves in the fall

Examples of deciduous

deciduous
An increasing time lag between maximum leaf fall and leaf flush was observed in the order evergreen, brevi-deciduous, deciduous and stem-succulent.
Our findings suggest that established seedlings of common shade-tolerant tree species in this semi-deciduous forest may be tolerant of severe drought events.
The findings suggest that, once established, seedlings of common tree species in this semi-deciduous forest may be tolerant of drought events.
The model used site (riparian vs. deciduous), presence of galling insects (leaves with galls vs. leaves without galls) and individual plant as the independent variables.
The exception is the central semi-deciduous forest, where remaining forest is highly fragmented.
They are all deciduous, and there is little if any undergrowth.
Five different pits were used in the study, with three being in the riverine area and two in the deciduous woodland.
Nevertheless, in many cases the woods produced by deciduous and evergreen conifers may be distinguished from one another on the basis of percentage skew values.
In addition, deciduous foliage units typically have small leaves at the base that grade into mature leaves more distally.
The peninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropical deciduous forest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.
In the evergreen forest site the most well-drained positions have paler colours than at equivalent positions in the semi-deciduous forest site.
Most are canopy or emergent trees that rely on insect or bat pollinators and vertebrate seed dispersers; none is known to be dioecious or deciduous.
Responses to canopy openings in architectural development of saplings in eight deciduous broadleaved tree species.
Five partly deciduous species exhibited marked intraspecific variation in the seasonal extent of leaf loss.
Factors influencing sapling composition in canopy gaps of a temperate deciduous forest.
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