Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of juice or sap; juicy.
  • adjective Botany Having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems.
  • adjective Highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable.
  • noun A succulent plant, such as a sedum or cactus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of juice; specifically, in botany, juicy; thick and fleshy: noting plants that have the stems or leaves thick or fleshy and juicy, as in the houseleek and live-for-ever, the orders Cactaceæ, Crassulaceæ, etc.
  • Hence Figuratively, affording mental sustenance; not dry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of juice; juicy.
  • adjective plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective juicy or lush
  • adjective interesting or delectable
  • adjective botany having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water
  • noun a succulent plant (such as cactus)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective full of juice
  • noun a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin succulentus, from succus, juice; see seuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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  • "full of juice"

    August 13, 2007

  • STANLEY. Succulent.

    MEG. You shouldn't say that word.

    STANLEY. What word?

    MEG. That word you said.

    STANLEY. What, succulent—?

    MEG. Don't say it!

    STANLEY. What's the matter with it?

    MEG. You shouldn't say that word to a married woman.

    STANLEY. Is that a fact?

    MEG: Yes.

    STANLEY. Well. I never knew that.

    —Pinter, The Birthday Party

    December 27, 2008