succulent
Other forms: succulents; succulently
Succulent means "juicy" and is often used to describe food. Think a succulent piece of meat, or berries so succulent you’re left sucking juice off your fingertips when you eat them.
You can think of the word suck as hiding inside succulent––an orange you could pierce with a straw and suck the juice out of is succulent indeed. Or remember Desert Survival 101––find a cactus, an aloe, or another of the water-retaining plants known as succulents and drink from them.
Definitions of succulent
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full of juice
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a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirstypes:Carpobrotus edulis, Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, Mesembryanthemum edule, sour figlow-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulpDorotheanthus bellidiformis, livingstone daisylow-growing showy succulent annual of South Africa having white or pink or red or orange flowers and spatulate leaves covered in papillae that resemble small crystalsflowering stone, lithops, living stone, stone life face, stone plant, stone-face, stonefaceany plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stonesliving granite, living rock, stone mimicry planthighly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africacactusany succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spinesaloesucculent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in AfricaAcanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya, pitahaya cactus, pitayacactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruitAporocactus flagelliformis, rat's-tail cactus, rattail cactuscommonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several daysAriocarpus fissuratus, living rockusually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United StatesCarnegiea gigantea, saguaro, sahuaroextremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruitnight-blooming cereusany of several cacti of the genus Cereuscoryphanthaa cactus of the genus Coryphanthabarrel cactus, echinocactusany cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazilhedgehog cereuscactus of the genus Echinocereusrainbow cactusa stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexicoepiphyllum, orchid cactusany cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowersbarrel cactusa cactus of the genus Ferocactus: unbranched barrel-shaped cactus having deep ribs with numerous spines and usually large funnel-shaped flowers followed by dry fruitsEaster cactus, Hatiora gaertneri, Schlumbergera gaertnerispring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergeranight-blooming cereusany of several cacti of the genus HylocereusLophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal, peyotea small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttonsmammillariaany cactus of the genus MammillariaMammillaria plumosa, feather balla low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern MexicoMyrtillocactus geometrizans, garambulla, garambulla cactusarborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruitKnowlton's cactus, Pediocactus knowltoniismall clustering cactus of southwestern United States; a threatened speciesnopalany of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pearsprickly pear, prickly pear cactuscacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stockOpuntia cholla, chollaarborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexicomistletoe cactusa plant of the genus RhipsalisChristmas cactus, Schlumbergera baridgesii, Schlumbergera buckleyiepiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winternight-blooming cereusany of several night-blooming cacti of the genus SelenicereusSchlumbergera truncatus, Thanksgiving cactus, Zygocactus truncatus, crab cactusSouth American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus SchlumbergeraAloe vera, burn plantvery short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplantstype of:
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