exsuccous

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/ɛksˈsʌkəs/

adjective

Without juice or sap; completely dry.

OriginLatin exsuccus →
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Meanings

adjectiveexsuccous (comparative more exsuccous, superlative most exsuccous)

comparative more exsuccous · superlative most exsuccous · alternative obsolete exuccous

  1. Without juice or sap; completely dry.

    1658: For that tree seeming dead, will restore it self from the root, and its dry and exuccous leaves resume their verdure again — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 34)

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
drysere

Origin

  1. Latinexsuccus
  2. Englishexsuccous

Latin exsuccus, from ex- + succus ‘juice’.

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Chicago

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