A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Succus (sucus),-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. succo (succo): juice, sap, the natural juice or moisture in living beings or things; “juice, specifically the expressed juice (as of a fruit) for medicinal use” (WIII); see juice, sap; cf. lac, gen.sg. lactis (s.n.III), ‘milk, milky juice, the milky sap of plants;’ cf. chymos (s.m.II) “juice (of plants);” see chymus,-i (s.m.II);

- hic igitur fructus velut oliva exprimitur et succus illius in sole siccatur et in glebam redigitur (pseudoGalen in Everett), this fruit, then, is pressed like an olive and its juice is dried in the sun and [i.e. until] it is rendered into a lump [i.e. a gel].

- succus tristis (adj.B), bitter or harsh-tasting sap.

- [Pentandria digynia] rami succum glutinosum et graveolentem fundunt (Desfont.), the branches pour out a glutinous and strong-smelling sap.

- herbae ramosae, glaucescentes, succo flavo (B&H), branched herbs, somewhat glaucous, with a yellow sap.

- herbae succo croceo praeditae, herbs with juice saffron-coloured provided (Stearn 1983).

- arbusculae succo colorem luteum v. rubrum praebente scatentes (B&H), small trees full of (abounding in) a sap displaying a yellow or red color.

- [Bocconia] herbae elatae fruticesve glaucae, succo croceo v. cinnabarino (B&H), tall, glaucous herbs or shrubs, with a saffron or cinnabar-colored sap.

- herbae succo aqueo vel lacteo scatentes, herbs abounding in a watery [i.e. clear] or milky juice (Cactus).

- succus aquosus, the sap watery.

- succus umiferus, moist sap.

- herbae, frutices, suffrutices et arbores, saepe succo resinoso donatae aut variis glandulis obsitae(DeCandolle), herbs, shrubs, subshrubs and trees, often with a resinous sap or beset with glands of different kinds.

- Guttiferae (Order, Bentham & Hooker): Arbores fruticesve, nonnunquam epiphyticae, succo resinoso saepe flavo v. virescente scatentes (B&H), trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytic, often full of a resinous sap, yellow or greenish.

- [sapor; 'taste'] acidus sapor gustum quoque penetrat & tenuitate ferit, sed citra ullum sensum caloris. Tale maxime in aceto deprehenditur, deinde etiam in succo mali cytrii [sic], limonum, &c. (Ray), ‘acidic’ is a taste and also goes as far as a flavor, and strikes [i.e.the mouth] with a thinness/fineness [i.e. less sharp (i.e. than ‘acer’)], but just short of any sense of heat. It is of such a kind as is mostly detected in sour wine [i.e. vinegar], and then also in the juice of the citron, of lemons &c. NOTE: classically also spelled sucus,-i (s.m.II).

NOTE: in pharmaceutical Latin, ‘juice:’ succus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. succo.

lime juice, succus limettae, lime juice, juice of the lime; see lime (the fruit).