Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, consisting of, or resembling flesh.
- adjective Having abundant flesh.
- adjective Having a juicy or pulpy texture.
- adjective Fleshly; carnal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of flesh; composed of muscle, etc., as distinguished from harder substance; hence, pertaining to the physical as opposed to the moral nature.
- Full of flesh; plump; fat; corpulent: as, a fleshy man.
- Like flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
- adjective obsolete Human.
- adjective (Bot.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, related to, or resembling
flesh . - adjective of a person Having considerable
flesh .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or resembling flesh
- adjective usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
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Examples
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The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.
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The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.
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You will enjoy forbidden foods, satisfy your every taste in fleshy pleasures and intellectual self-indulgence.
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The expression fleshy, so often met with in these pages, is used in speaking of plants when they are succulent and composed of juicy, cellular tissue.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Most of us can probably immediately recall the fleshy covers -- a pregnant Demi Moore on Vanity Fair, a topless Janet Jackson (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the bare and pseudo-tattooed Dixie Chicks on Entertainment Weekly -- that succeeded in generating some buzz.
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The old woman clutched it at once in her fat, crooked fingers, which recalled the fleshy claws of an owl, quickly slipped it into her sleeve, pondered a little, and as though she had suddenly reached a decision, slapped her thighs with her open hand.
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"Don't call her fleshy, my dear, that's what really irritated her," remarked the Senator.
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Laviny ain't what you'd call fleshy, but she never could squeeze through that in this world.
Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The old woman clutched it at once in her fat, crooked fingers, which recalled the fleshy claws of an owl, quickly slipped it into her sleeve, pondered a little, and as though she had suddenly reached a decision, slapped her thighs with her open hand.
A Desperate Character and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Mr. _Ray_ takes notice, that those parts of Fowls, which are continually in Action, are esteem'd the best, for which reason he prefers the Legs of tame Fowls, and what we call the Wings in wild Fowl, that is, the fleshy part on the Breast.
The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710
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