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deciduated

deciduated is the simple past and past participle of deciduate.

Meaning of deciduate

Verb

deciduate (third-person singular simple present deciduates, present participle deciduating, simple past and past participle deciduated)

  1. To shed or release (a part of itself).
    • In favorable situations, the shrub carries leaves throughout the year, but more often it largely deciduates in the spring dry season .1998, Paul Schultz Martin, Gentry's R’o Mayo Plants, page 431
  2. To be shed or released from what (the subject) was originally part of.
    • The Pythagorean Monad was not, therefore,to his mind, an abstraction in which no personality inhered; but a true living God, out of which All is, and in whom All exists; the eternal Being, out of which Existence springs, and from which Life, in its individual and personal forms, deciduates.1856, The British Controversialist

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Questions about deciduated

What is deciduated the simple past and past participle of?
Deciduated is the simple past and past participle of deciduate.

Words near deciduated in the dictionary

  1. decidualized
  2. decidualizing
  3. deciduary
  4. deciduas
  5. deciduate
  6. deciduated
  7. deciduates
  8. deciduating
  9. deciduation
  10. deciduations
  11. deciduitis

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