How to Use deciduous in a Sentence

deciduous

adjective
  • Wood ferns (deciduous, so bare five months of the year).
    Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 16 May 2017
  • This wood comes from deciduous trees (the kind that drop their leaves each year).
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2021
  • The woods are the dense, deciduous, swampy kind, the kind in which rotting leaves mingle with the earth and the ground gives soft way beneath the boy’s feet.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
  • The best time to plant new deciduous fruit trees is in late winter.
    Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • And on the other side of the path is a deciduous forest of beeches.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
  • The taiga forest trailed the ice, and then the deciduous trees moved in during this age of climate change.
    Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • This week in the garden The leaves are falling from deciduous trees in the landscape.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Find advice on when and how to prune many species of deciduous shrubs at mortonarb.org/pruning-deciduous-shrubs.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • For ease of harvest, keep your deciduous fruit trees at a height of eight feet.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Set against the greens of the ponderosa pines, an array of deciduous trees splash color all along the route.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Snow load on deciduous shrubs and trees may cause limbs and branches to break.
    Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The old-growth deciduous forests can make a person feel young the same way city skyscrapers can make one feel small.
    Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • When the towering canopy of white pine blew down, what was left were the seedlings and saplings of deciduous hardwood trees.
    Stephen Long, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Winter, when deciduous plants are bare and dormant, is a fine time to trim and shape your shrubs.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Summer hubbub is over, the powder’s yet to fly, and the deciduous trees are ablaze.
    Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2019
  • That's what signals our deciduous trees to drop their leaves in fall.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • This is a deciduous shrub with bright coral red stems in winter.
    OregonLive.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One theory is that the kind of deciduous forests that cicadas like to drink sap from are common in the East, rather than the West.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
  • Both of these cypresses are deciduous and drop all of their leaves in the winter.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • But this is part of the problem with deciduous fruit trees; the fruit ripens during a period of a few weeks.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
  • So does fall, when the deciduous splendor of the park unveils in washes of gold, red, and umber.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • From the busy parking lot, a network of short trails wind through the park, running through a large, grassy meadow and deciduous forests to the banks of the Sandy River.
    oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
  • That was the case in late September, when a heavy snowfall stressed deciduous trees that had not yet lost their leaves and couldn’t bear the weight, said Post.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • By month’s end, strip leaves off pears, plums, and other deciduous fruit trees.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The third reason people plant in the fall is because deciduous trees drop leaves then.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Tree 'Shan Hu Tai': This deciduous shrub, reaching 3 to 5 feet tall, can grow as a hedge and features coral pink blooms.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 May 2024
  • In the fall, nearby June Lake in the Eastern Sierra has deciduous trees awash in golds, oranges and reds.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The Congaree and Wateree Rivers flow through the park, helping to sustain one of the highest deciduous tree canopies in the world.
    Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The aspen groves are not as predominant here, and hikers will find a wider array of colors due to the range of deciduous tree varieties fed by moisture from springs and creeks.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • However, star magnolia, native to Japan and a deciduous tree, can handle growing zones 4 to 8.
    Nina Malkin, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024

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