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exsuccous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɛksˈsʌkəs/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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)

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