succulent

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-- Inflexibly succulent, as of the aloe or houseleek.

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  1. adjective Full of juice or sap; juicy.
  2. adjective Botany Having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems.
  3. adjective Highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable: a succulent bit of gossip.
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  • He could smell roast wherry, succulent, and dripping with juices. —  Dragon Drums
  • Description: A slow-growing ground cover no more than a foot tall with succulent, glossy, dark green leaves and half flowers. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • A slow-growing ground cover no more than a foot tall with succulent, glossy, dark green leaves and half flowers. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • Hoodia is the world's most compelling appetite suppressant that is in the form of a succulent - the fat plants, that have ability to retain water adapted to arid climate or soil conditions. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The lightly breaded flounder is a masterpiece, moist and succulent, and the grilled branzino is every bit as cheap and tasty. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
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  1. Latin succulentus, from succus, juice; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French succulent = Spanish suculento = Portuguese succulento = Italian succulento, Latin succulentus, suculentus, full of juice, sappy, from succus, properly sucus, juice, from sugere, suck: see suck. Cf. suck.
 

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/ˈsəkjulənt/
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