deciduate

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having, or characterized by, a decidua.

   “deciduate placenta”

noun

1. An animal that sheds a decidua.

   “In the non-deciduates this relation is one of simple contact; but this same relation has been likewise observed in mammiferous deciduates, whether they have the zonarial or the discoidal form of placenta.”

   “Still more characteristic of the deciduates is the peculiar and very intimate connection between the chorion frondosum and the corresponding part of the mucous coat of the womb, which we must regard as a real coalescence of the two.”

verb

1. To shed or release (a part of itself).

   “In favorable situations, the shrub carries leaves throughout the year, but more often it largely deciduates in the spring dry season .”

   “When it rains, it deciduates its tart perfume and breathes it through the house.”

   “The larch, looking like a scrawny spruce or fir, is unusual for a conifer: it deciduates in the fall , the needles turning yellow before they drop.”

2. To be shed or released from what (the subject) was originally part of.

   “The Pythagorean Monad was not, therefore,to his mind, an abstraction in which no personality inhered; but a true living God, out of which All is, and in whom All exists; the eternal Being, out of which Existence springs, and from which Life, in its individual and personal forms, deciduates.”

   “It follows, therefore, that the line of demarcation between a diffused non-deciduate, and a zonary deciduate placenta, is not so sharp as has usually been supposed, but is graded over by the ruminant polycotyledonary placenta, in which the epithelial layer is the preponderating if not the only element of the mucosa which deciduates during parturition.”