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Definition of Succulent
1. Noun. A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs.
Generic synonyms: Tracheophyte, Vascular Plant
2. Adjective. Full of juice. "Succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves"
Definition of Succulent
1. a. Full of juice; juicy.
Definition of Succulent
1. Adjective. juicy or lush ¹
2. Adjective. interesting or delectable ¹
3. Adjective. (botany) having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water ¹
4. Noun. a succulent plant (such as cactus) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Succulent
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Succulent
Literary usage of Succulent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Spiny, 6-8-angled succulent shrub often grown under names of E. virosa ...
Spiny succulent with branches V-shaped in cross- section, and clustered on a ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1834)
"As the greater number of our fossil plants have been referred to the ferns,
cactuses, and other succulent analogues, it is among these we are to look for ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"succulent herbs or shrubs, often epiphytic, with the characters of ... _An epiphyte ;
stem woody below, branches succulent. Leaves 6-S in., ..."
4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1808)
"Leaves imbricated, palish, pellucid and succulent, obovate or spatulate, obtuse,
wavy, entire, finely marked with round reticulations, and furnished with a ..."
5. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"By means of this constitution, the succulent plants are enabled to live, ...
In the succulent shoot-axes, the leaves, although formed at the growing point, ..."
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