fleshy

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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.

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  1. adjective Relating to, consisting of, or resembling flesh.
  2. adjective Having abundant flesh; plump. See Synonyms at fat.
  3. adjective Having a juicy or pulpy texture: ripe, fleshy peaches.

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  • His features were fleshy, and yet there was a suggestion of leanness about him, as if he were pared to the bone by a hunger that had naught to do with sustenance of the body. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • The plebe himself was rather short and fleshy, and the picture of mirth. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • His once-fleshy, seventy-year-old face was emaciated, slowly crumbling from within, like an emotionally termite-tortured structure. —  AHMM,November2007
  • The face was fleshy, as of a child aged before its time—no more resembling the face of a creator of high abstractions than did Einstein's in the days when Einstein still worked in a government office. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • They're pretty good apples: firm, fleshy, and not too damaged. —  foldedspace
 

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  1. from Middle English fleschy (= Dutch vleezig (for *vleeschig) = Middle Low German vlēschich = Middle High German vleischec, German fleischig = Swedish fläskig); from flesh + -y.
 

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/ˈflɛʃi/
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