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  • adjective Resembling flesh

Etymologies

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flesh +‎ -like

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Examples

  • I have therefore adopted it in this enumeration.] [Footnote 13: The term fleshlike is employed to express that roughness of the valves, which somewhat resembles flesh in its appearance, but which is very different from the thickening of the parietes of the heart.]

    Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart John Collins Warren 1817

  • They're painted a fleshlike orangey tan on the left, roughly brushed greens to the right, to which are added dabs of turquoise and red.

    Disproportionately Powerful 2008

  • I mean, all that technology in an itty-bitty piece of fleshlike substance.

    Vigilance Paul Ruditis 2006

  • I mean, all that technology in an itty-bitty piece of fleshlike substance.

    Vigilance Paul Ruditis 2006

  • I mean, all that technology in an itty-bitty piece of fleshlike substance.

    Vigilance Paul Ruditis 2006

  • I mean, all that technology in an itty-bitty piece of fleshlike substance.

    Vigilance Paul Ruditis 2006

  • Further, the substance of some of these intermediate creatures is fleshlike, as is the case with the so-called tethya (or ascidians) and the acalephae (or sea-anemones); but the sponge is in every respect like a vegetable.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • About this period the embryo begins to resolve into distinct parts, it having hitherto consisted of a fleshlike substance without distinction of parts.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Dale could see a plastic-wrapped ham protruding from the largest of the plastic bags, the pink meat looking vaguely fleshlike and obscene.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • These are animals that have their hard structure outside, and their soft or fleshlike substance inside, and the hard substance belonging to them has to be crushed rather than shattered; and to this genus belongs the crawfish and the crab.

    The History of Animals 2002

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