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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
caducous /kəˈdjuːkəs/

▶adjective chiefly Botany (of an organ or part) easily detached and shed at an early stage.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘epileptic’): from L. caducus ‘liable to fall’ (from cadere ‘to fall’) + -ous.

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