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Succulent—suk’-ku-lent (Fr. succulent, juicy, 
from the Lat. succus, juice, sap, moisture). 
Applied to plants and fruits that are soft and 
juicy. 
Sudorific—su’-dor-if-ik (Lat. sudor, and facio, 
Imake). Any medicine causing sweat, 
Suffruticose—suf’-fru-ti’-koz (Lat. swd, under, 
and /ructicosus, bushy, shrubby). Shrubby 
beneath, like an under shrub in character. 
Sugar—shoog’-er (Arabic sakkar; Sanscrit 
sharkara, sugar; Lat. saccharum; Gr. sak- 
charon), 'The sweet substance obtained from 
vegetable matter, sugar cane, beets, etc. 
Sumach--su’-mak (Fr. zumac; Spanish zumague; 
Arabic suwmmak), A small shrub or tree used 
for tanning leather, and occasionally used in 
medicine; many varieties. 
Sumbul—sum’-bul (a word derived from the 
Tartar). A native of the East; the root used 
in medicine, ferula sumbul. Muskroot. 
Supra-axillary—(Lat. supra, and axilla, the 
arm pit). Growing above the axil; contrary 
to sub-axillary. 
Syncarpus—sin-kar’-pus (Gr. sun, together, 
and farpos, fruit). When the carpels are 
united so as to form one pistil or ovary; as 
the blackberry and raspberry, which are an 
aggregation of fruits. : 
Syngenesia—sin’-je-ne’-si-a (Gr. sun, with or 
together, and genesis, birth generation). A 
class of plants whose stamens are united in a 
cylindrical form by the anthers, as in the 
Composite. ae 
Tamarind—tam’-a-rind (Arabic famr'-ul hindi, 
from tamar,a dried date, the Indian date 
