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CADUCI

Volume 4 · 54 words · 1797 Edition

(from cadu to "fall"); the name of a class in Linnæus's calycina, consisting of plants whose calyx is a simple perianthium, supporting a single flower or fructification, and falling off either before or with the petals. It stands opposed to the classes perfyllentes in the same method, and is exemplified in mustard and ranunculus.