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suc·cu·lent

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ADJECTIVE:

Full of juice or sap; juicy.
Botany Having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems.
Highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable: a succulent bit of gossip.

NOUN:
Botany

A succulent plant, such as a sedum or cactus.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin succulentus, from succus, juice; see seu-² in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
succu·lence or succu·len·cy(Noun), succu·lent·ly(Adverb)

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