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succulent
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succulent as in: succulent roast beef

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  • The peaches are succulent and bursting with flavor.
    succulent = full of juice
  • The meals were succulent; Richard made quite a fuss over them, and especially over the wines.  (source)
    succulent = highly tasty or enjoyable
  • There was one thing that hadn't changed in Kabul after all: The kabob was as succulent and delicious as I remembered.  (source)
    succulent = juicy and delightful
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  • A soft rain had fallen most of the day, and now as the sun neared the horizon, the forest formed its own fog that drifted through succulent glades.  (source)
    succulent = wet or delightful
  • A cutting of aloe vera that Lena gave me did not belong anywhere because we had no other succulents.  (source)
    succulents = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • The shrunken fruits grow fat and purplish red; the branches sag under their succulence.†  (source)
  • We were both really full, but dessert—a succulently rich cremeux surrounded by passion fruit—was too good not to at least nibble, so we lingered for a while over dessert, trying to get hungry again.  (source)
    succulently = delightful
  • There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable.  (source)
  • He hauled stones in off the desert and built a small rock garden outside our doorway, with succulents and a patch of moss.  (source)
    succulents = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • What a litter—what a confusion; with here birth, here death; succulence and sweetness; effort and anguish; and myself always running hither and thither.†  (source)
  • She wore a black necklace which hung down in three coils just above her full, succulent breasts.  (source)
    succulent = delightful
  • He kept journals about every one of the four hundred varieties of cactus and succulents—some of which he had never seen, others of which he had smuggled into the country via a friend.  (source)
    succulents = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a succulent chunk.  (source)
    succulent = highly enjoyable (or juicy)
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succulent as in: succulent plant type

I have a collection of succulent plants on my windowsill, including aloe vera and jade plants.
succulent = plants with thick leaves or stems that store water
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  • That part of the desert is dotted with various types of succulent plants, such as cacti and agave.
  • The fittings in his house were worn but painstakingly repaired, as was his garden: home to mesquite trees and desert willows and succulent plants that had seen better years, but were still alive and mostly free of blight.  (source)
    succulent = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • He was a founder of the Cactus and Succulent Society.  (source)
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  • Here is the winged thunbergia, the large snouted justicia, the mustard tree of Scripture with its succulent leaves and infinitesimal berries.  (source)
    succulent = filled with water
  • He welcomed the thorn bush, experimented with gnarled Japanese fig trees, retreated to pragmatic vegetables or spears of the succulent.  (source)
    succulent = plants adapted to dry conditions and having thick, leaves or stems that store water
  • In his last years my father was a founding member of "The Ceylon Cactus and Succulent Society" and this interest began during his time in Kuttapitiya—all because of his devious and defensive nature.  (source)
  • THE CEYLON CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY  (source)
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