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CADUCI

Volume 5 · 54 words · 1815 Edition

(from cadō "to fall"); the name of a class in Linnaeus'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 clasps persifflentes in the same method, and is exemplified in mustard and ranunculus.