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SUCCULENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("succulent" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "succulent"):
Carpobrotus edulis; Hottentot's fig; Hottentot fig; Mesembryanthemum edule; sour fig (low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp)
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis; livingstone daisy (low-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 crystals)
flowering stone; lithops; living stone; stone-face; stone life face; stone plant; stoneface (any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones)
living granite; living rock; stone mimicry plant (highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa)
cactus (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)
aloe (succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa)
Derivation:
succulent (tender and full of juice)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tender and full of juice
Example:
succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves
Synonyms:
lush; succulent
Classified under:
Similar:
juicy (full of juice)
Derivation:
succulence (a juicy appetizingness)
succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)
