SUCCULENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does succulent mean? 

• SUCCULENT (noun)
  The noun SUCCULENT has 1 sense:

1. a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

  Familiarity information: SUCCULENT used as a noun is very rare.

• SUCCULENT (adjective)
  The adjective SUCCULENT has 1 sense:

1. tender and full of juice

  Familiarity information: SUCCULENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUCCULENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

• SUCCULENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tender and full of juice

Synonyms:

lush; succulent

Context example:

succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves

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)

 Context examples 

A succulent, fibrous plant, of the family Liliaceae, with basal leaves, having toothed or fibrous margins.

(Aloe vera, NCI Thesaurus)

A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)