From Latin exsuccus, from ex- + succus ‘juice’.
exsuccous (comparative more exsuccous, superlative most exsuccous)
- Without juice or sap. Completely dry.
- 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)