English > succulent: 2 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs. |
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| Narrower | Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, sour fig, Carpobrotus edulis, Mesembryanthemum edule | low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp |
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| aloe | succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers |
| cactus | Any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines |
| lithops, living stone, stoneface, stone-face, stone plant, stone life face, flowering stone | 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 |
| livingstone daisy, Dorotheanthus bellidiformis | 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 |
| Broader | vascular plant, tracheophyte | green plant having a vascular system |
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| Spanish | planta carnosa |
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| Catalan | planta carnosa |
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| Adjectives | succulent | full of juice |
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