What's the difference between luscious and succulent?

Luscious


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
  • (a.) Cloying; fulsome.
  • (a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anyway, pink was not then the absolute obsession with little girls that it has since become, and I had been hoping for the luscious, bleeding colours of Disney's Technicolor.
  • (2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (3) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
  • (4) I dreamed that a baby burst out of my abdomen last night, an image utterly remote from most luscious baby marketing.
  • (5) Project Spark looks like an intriguing game builder allowing users to create luscious RPG worlds with a simple Kinect interface.
  • (6) Young had obviously reached a bad stage in his life, but the backing by the London symphony orchestra makes it luscious.
  • (7) The winning recipe: Zesty lemon and almond and vanilla petits fours I've just tried out a new luscious petit-four recipe, based on a Moroccan idea I saw, which has to be the epitome of zesty.
  • (8) Looking back now that game still has the feel of a luscious one-off.
  • (9) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
  • (10) People are waiting in line with containers and barrels to fill up to get to where they want to go.” Ang said from Havannah he could see that the islands of Moso and Lelepa, “normally a luscious, rolling green, have been stripped bare” by the cyclone.
  • (11) And, I’m always the conservative one so I may be understating that number.” Hardy, 56, who has been selling houses for 20 years, pauses to point out the window as she drives past acre after acre of luscious hedgerows grown 20ft high to shield the wealthy from prying eyes.
  • (12) Let’s not forget we are talking about a land that the ancient Greeks could not believe when they landed: such a paradise of luscious food, but because of the massive inequality of rich and poor, there were times when many people had very little to eat.
  • (13) I'm in a huge, ancient cast iron bath with crackled cream enamel, and I've decided to float on my back in the green water, piling the huge mounds of luscious fleshy seaweed all over me.
  • (14) Joyce DiDonato, the US mezzo-soprano who performs the part for the last time in the run tonight, would have achieved wonderful reviews for her voice alone: luscious and clear, with a freshness that filled the theatre.
  • (15) In the prop store, I see the Pontipines' tiny picnic table, cloth laid out with drawer-knob cakes and luscious trifles made out of sherry glasses filled with glass beads.
  • (16) The winning recipe: braised ox cheek ragu I live in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain and the weather has been awful this winter, so I wanted to make something heart-warming, rich and luscious.
  • (17) For a weekend last September, he gave over his luscious farm in the Cotswolds to a festival celebrating his two great loves: food and music.
  • (18) The superbly lifelike constellation of almost too luscious-looking grapes, bruised and scarred apples, a pomegranate burst open to reveal the blood-red seeds within, and other ripe, even over-ripe, fancies that balance dangerously on the edge of the table is just one of many fruit baskets that appear in Caravaggio’s art.
  • (19) The dish is silky and luscious with a wonderful mouth-feel; the textures in the stuffing balance perfectly.
  • (20) Doña Yoli, a humble operation, has been doling out luscious red pozole for decades.

Succulent


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of juice; juicy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (3) Its "restaurant" in the Olympic park was decorated with words like "succulent" blown up to obesity to mislead.
  • (4) Up close, I see that the Culatrans coax exquisite gardens out of the sand with wildflowers, succulents, shell patterns and mad blushes of bougainvillea.
  • (5) Those questions will probably centre on testimony given by Torres last week – including dozens of emails that allegedly show that the king tried to help his son-in-law land potentially succulent, if legal, contracts.
  • (6) I try to be nice about it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Corcoran films a strip of rocks and succulents.
  • (7) Mallard ducks fed a diet containing 3 ppm DDE (equal to about 0.6 ppm in a natural succulent diet) laid eggs that contained an average of 5.8 ppm DDE; ducklings that hatched from these eggs differed from controls in behavioral tests designed to measure responses to a maternal call and to a frightening stimulus.
  • (8) The traumatic damages of the uterine wall are described (extravascular fibrin deposits, interstitial bleeding, succulent tissue a.s.o.
  • (9) These mercury diets are approximately equivalent to 0.1 and 0.6 ppm mercury in a natural succulent diet.
  • (10) Downstairs a large bar-restaurant flows outside, serving succulent lamb, seafood and paella.
  • (11) A few days before the 1st dead animal was found, the drought was relieved by about 10 cm (4 in) of rainfall, resulting in the growth of young succulent grass.
  • (12) Published field studies indicate that these animals depend more on dry hard fruit and chitinous invertebrates during drier times and succulent fruits and caterpillars during wetter times of the year.
  • (13) Customers from all walks of life happily devour their succulent char-roasted morsels of goodness, while downing ice-cold beer or horchata , a milky-looking drink made from rice.
  • (14) The winner, however, is the rib-eye; bit pricier, but pesos well spent for tender succulence.
  • (15) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
  • (16) Above the roar of machinery, Stiles explains that you need some skin to keep the nuggets succulent; 15% is about right, he reckons.
  • (17) The meat is juicy and succulent, the smoky grilled aroma lingering until you take the next bite.
  • (18) thermophilus in the milk; -- in feeding greater amounts of succulent forages in the winter, spring, and autumn periods there is a retardation in the development of the same organisms in the milk.
  • (19) In promonocytes and in neutrophilic and eosinophilic proganulocytes, peroxidase reaction product was localized in lysosomes, in the perinuclear cisternae, all cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi succules.
  • (20) What people leave as forest could be sparse hill slopes, and the elephants may well prefer to move through farmlands and feed on succulent crops as they go.