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succulency

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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.succulency - a juicy appetizingness
juiciness, succulence
appetisingness, appetizingness - the property of stimulating the appetite
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The sauce kicked in nicely, but frozen prawns warmed through lose their succulency and tend to dry up, which is exactly what had happened.
Savour flavour of local dishes; Peter Lippitt dines out at the Horse ... by Lippitt, Peter / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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