/ˈsʌksaɪ/.succusn.
/ˈsʌkəs//ˈsʌksaɪ/. A juice; in scientific terminology applied to (a) fluid secretions in an animal or vegetable body, (b) juices extracted from plants.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > fluids
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap
oozeeOE
sapOE
milkOE
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion
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1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1722) Succus, is any Juice.]
1771 Bp. R. Watson Chem. Ess. (1787) V. 137 Wherever there is a vascular system, containing a moving nutritive succus, there is life.
1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 263 He regards the succus [of hemlock] as the only reliable preparation of the drug for internal use.
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