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succulent

UK/ˈsʌkjələnt/US/ˈsʌkjələnt/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,960 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: succulents

A succulent is a plant with thick fleshy leaves that hold water. Grow succulents, a windowsill succulent, water the succulent sparingly.

The thick leaves are a water store, which is why the commonest way to kill one is watering it too often. All cacti are succulents and most succulents are not cacti — the spines and the little cushions they grow from are what mark a cactus out.

Raul654 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of succulent

  1. 1nounsucculentA plant with thick fleshy leaves that hold water.C1

    “She keeps a row of small succulents on her sunny windowsill.”

succulent is a plant.

Where it comes from

Latin succulentus means full of juice, from succus, juice or sap.

  1. Latin

    succulentus

  2. French

    succulent

  3. English, today

    succulent

Borrowed from French succulent, from Latin succulentus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Trees & Flowers

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succulent in the wild

  • Aloe is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants.

    Aloe

  • Some Peperomias have thick, waxy, succulent leaves and stems; still, others are rather delicate, with paper-thin leaves.

    Peperomia

  • In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.

    Succulent plant

  • Multiple plant families contain both succulent and non-succulent species.

    Succulent plant

  • The park also has an arid environment with succulent plants.

    Namaqua National Park

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.