| 单词 | succulent |
| 释义 | succulent (once / 4594 pages) adjn 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. WORD FAMILYsucculent: succulence, succulency, succulently, succulents+/succulence: succulences USAGE EXAMPLESThe tiny pink shrimp were succulent and plump, bursting with brininess. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) This dish does exactly what it’s designed to do: Turn a tough, unattractive cut into a succulent steak. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) By itself, the roast chicken, crisp of skin and succulent throughout, would get me back. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj full of juice succulent roast beef succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves Syn lush juicy full of juice 2n a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs Hypo|Hyper Carpobrotus edulis, Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, Mesembryanthemum edule, sour fig low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp Dorotheanthus 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 crystals flowering 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 stones living granite, living rock, stone mimicry planthighly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa cactusany succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines aloesucculent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya, pitahaya cactuscactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit Aporocactus 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 days Ariocarpus 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 States Carnegiea 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 fruit night-blooming cereusany of several cacti of the genus Cereus coryphanthaa cactus of the genus Coryphantha barrel cactus, echinocactusany cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil hedgehog cereuscactus of the genus Echinocereus rainbow cactusa stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico epiphyllum, orchid cactusany cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers barrel 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 fruits Easter cactus, Hatiora gaertneri, Schlumbergera gaertnerispring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera night-blooming cereusany of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus Lemaireocereus chichipe, chichipetall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit Lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal, peyotea small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons mammillariaany cactus of the genus Mammillaria Mammillaria plumosa, feather balla low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico Myrtillocactus geometrizans, garambulla, garambulla cactusarborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit Knowlton's cactus, Pediocactus knowltoniismall clustering cactus of southwestern United States; a threatened species nopalany of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears prickly pear, prickly pear cactuscacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock Opuntia cholla, chollaarborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico mistletoe cactusa plant of the genus Rhipsalis Christmas 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 winter night-blooming cereusany of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus Schlumbergera truncatus, Thanksgiving cactus, Zygocactus truncatus, crab cactusSouth American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera Aloe ferox, cape aloemuch-branched South African plant with reddish prickly succulent leaves Aloe 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 houseplants tracheophyte, vascular plant green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms |
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