caducous
falling off or shed at an early stage, especially of plant parts
Caducous in a sentence
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The caducous sepals dropped away soon after the flower opened.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
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