‖ succus
(ˈsʌkəs)
Pl. succi (ˈsʌksaɪ).
[L.]
A juice; in scientific terminology applied to (a) fluid secretions in an animal or vegetable body, (b) juices extracted from plants.
| [1719 Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (1722), Succus, is any Juice.] 1771 Bp. Watson Ess. Subj. Chem. Chem. Ess. 1787 V. 137 Wherever there is a vascular system, containing a moving nutritive succus, there is life. 1874 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. (ed. 4) 263 He regards the succus [of hemlock] as the only reliable preparation of the drug for internal use. |