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succulence

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suc·cu·lent  (sky-lnt)
adj.
1. Full of juice or sap; juicy.
2. Botany Having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems.
3. Highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable: a succulent bit of gossip.
n. Botany
A succulent plant, such as a sedum or cactus.
[Latin succulentus, from succus, juice; see seu-2 in Indo-European roots.]
succu·lence, succu·len·cy n.
succu·lent·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.succulence - a juicy appetizingness
juiciness, succulency
appetisingness, appetizingness - the property of stimulating the appetite
Translations
succulence [ˈsʌkjʊləns] N → suculencia f
succulence
n → Saftigkeit f
succulence [ˈsʌkjʊləns] n → succulenza
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Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.
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