Sentence:  A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable <WSD>turgid</WSD> with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.