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| apple |
a firm round fruit with succulent white flesh and a red, green, or yellow skin. [1/3 definitions] |
| glasswort |
any of several fleshy plants that are found in salt marshes or the like, having succulent stems and scalelike leaves, the ash of which was formerly used in making glass. |
| herbage |
the succulent, often edible parts of green plants. [1/2 definitions] |
| juicy |
having a great amount of juice; succulent. [1/2 definitions] |
| samphire |
a succulent herb that bears small clusters of yellowish flowers, growing mostly on rocky sea coasts. [1/2 definitions] |
| water chestnut |
an Asian sedge with erect cylindrical leaves, or the succulent edible submerged tuber of this plant. [1/2 definitions] |
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