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succulence

American  
[suhk-yuh-luhns] / ˈsʌk jə ləns /

noun

  1. the quality or state of being succulent; a specific element or part of something that is particularly succulent.


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Peking duck gets its succulence from that bird’s fatty nature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Order breast meat, and find it uniformly, almost uncannily tender; the dark meat is a study in succulence, with richness provided by more variation in texture.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024

Moving from a diet of meadow bugs and worms to a mash of corn flour and milk in its final sedentary weeks, this revered Gallic bird acquires a unique muscular succulence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

The slow-roasted meat — crisp edges, clinging fat, succulence throughout — peels away from the bone at the touch of a fork.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021

Such early cutting, however, adds much to the difficulty of curing the crop, since, while naturally succulent, its succulence is then, of course, considerably more than at a later period.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw

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