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perishable collapse: food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated; liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay; "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable foods such as butter and fruit"

fly-by-night collapse: a debtor who flees to avoid paying; ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"; of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

corruptible collapse: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

fleeting collapse: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

impermanent collapse: existing or enduring for a limited time only; not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"

imperceptible collapse: impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses; "an imperceptible drop in temperature"; "an imperceptible nod"; "color is unperceivable to the touch"

transitive collapse: designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

meteoric collapse: like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience; "a meteoric rise to fame"; pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids; "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts"

flash in the pan collapse: someone who enjoys transient success but then fails

deciduous collapse: (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season; (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth"

fragile collapse: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

biennial collapse: a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season; having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"; occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions"

immaterial collapse: not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities"; (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him"; of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"

brittle collapse: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets; having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"; (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured; lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"

temporal collapse: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"; not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt; concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"; of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"; of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"; of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"

amphibian collapse: cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form; an airplane designed to take off and land on water; a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water

mutable collapse: capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

fungus collapse: a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores

fugitive collapse: someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice; someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"

evergreen collapse: a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year; (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year

hardy collapse: English novelist and poet (1840-1928); United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957); able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"; having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes"

perennial collapse: a plant lasting for three seasons or more; recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"; lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant"; lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"

annual collapse: a reference book that is published regularly once every year; a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year; completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants"; occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income"

flying collapse: done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line; "a flying start"; "crossed the goal line with a flying leap"; hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"; of or relating to passage through the air (especially aviation); "a flying time of three hours between cities"; "unidentified flying objects"; designed for swift movement or action; "a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city"; capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal"

fickle collapse: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

volatile collapse: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"; tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"; evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents"

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