exsuccous

Alternative forms

 * (obsolete)

Etymology
From Latin exsuccus, from ex- + succus ‘juice’.

Adjective

 * 1) Without juice or sap. Completely dry.
 * 2) * 1658: For that tree seeming dead, will restore it self from the root, and its dry and exuccous leaves resume their verdure again — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 34)