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Succulent

adjective

Full of juice. Synonym: lush. "Succulent roast beef" , "Succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves"

noun

A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs.

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"Succulent" Quotes from Famous Books

... nobly that no successor can improve upon it by any new fashion or combination. For want of dignity or beauty, many good things are passed and forgotten; and much ancient wisdom is overrun and hidden by a rampant verdure, succulent, but unsubstantial.... Let those who look upon style as unworthy of much attention ask themselves how many, in proportion to men of genius, have excelled in it. In all languages, ancient and modern, are there ten prose-writers at ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various

... spermogonia will be found either in separate tufts on discoloured spots, or associated with the Roestelia, In Peridermium there is very little structural difference from Roestelia, and the species are all found on coniferous trees. In Endophyllum, the peridia are immersed in the succulent substance of the matrix; whilst in Graphiola, there is a tougher and withal double peridium, the inner of which forms a tuft of erect threads resembling ...

— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... muzzle jes' ez nat'ral—an' Me—waal, sir! don't I look proud!" he cried suddenly, with a note of such succulent vanity, so finely flavored a pride, that the stranger could but laugh at the zest of ...

— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... disease in sheep, due to a change in food from succulent to dry; and the name given to the mutton of ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... boyishly, and she found an unlooked-for joy in pleasing him. She had made delicious puddings out of rice and canned milk and raisins, she knew just the identical number of minutes it required to broil a moose porterhouse just to his taste, and she could fry a grouse to surpass the most succulent fried chicken ever served in a southern home. All these things pleased her and occupied the barren hours. She learned to sew on buttons, wash her own clothes, and keep the cabin clean and neat as a ...

— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall

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