ceduous

Of a tree: fit to be felled.

Adjective

  1. Of a tree: fit to be felled.
    • Theſe [trees] we ſhall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous, Fruticant and Shrubby; Feras and wild; or more Civiliz'd and domeſtique; [...] - 1670, John Evelyn, “. Introduction.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of...

Origin

From Latin caeduus, from caedō (“to cut down”).

Forms

more ceduous most ceduous