[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deciduous \decid"uous\ ?; 135, a. l. deciduus, fr. dec?dere
   to fall off; de- + cadere to fall. see chance. biol.
   falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain
   season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves
   except of evergreens in autumn, or as parts of animals,
   such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or
   parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous
   trees; the deciduous membrane.
   1913 webster
see also:
chance 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

deciduous
     adj 1: of plants and shrubs shedding foliage at the end of the
            growing season ant: evergreen
     2: of teeth, antlers, etc. being shed at the end of a period
        of growth; "deciduous teeth"
see also:
evergreen 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

95 moby thesaurus words for "deciduous":
   arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical,
   arboriform, brittle, bushlike, bushy, capricious, changeable,
   citrous, collapsing, coniferous, corruptible, declining,
   declivitous, decurrent, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid,
   descendant, descending, down, down-reaching, downcoming,
   downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping,
   dropping, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evergreen, fading, falling,
   fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail,
   fugacious, fugitive, half-hardy, hardwood, hardy, impermanent,
   impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal,
   mutable, nondeciduous, nondurable, nonpermanent, on the descendant,
   on the downgrade, passing, perennial, perishable, piny, plummeting,
   plunging, sagging, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, setting,
   short-lived, shrubby, shrublike, sinking, softwood, submerging,
   subsiding, temporal, temporary, tottering, transient, transitive,
   transitory, treelike, tumbledown, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
   volatile

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Deciduous Forest
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Temperate Deciduous Forest
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Deciduous Forest
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