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FLESHY

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: fleshier    , fleshiest   

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

Synonyms:

fleshy; heavy; overweight

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Derivation:

fleshiness (more than average fatness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling flesh

Synonyms:

fleshy; sarcoid

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

flesh (the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat)

Derivation:

flesh (the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A short, underground bud-like stem covered by enlarged and fleshy scales containing stored food.

(Bulb, Food and Drug Administration)

A simple fleshy fruit that includes a fleshy ovary wall and one or more carpels and seeds.

(Berry, Food and Drug Administration)

The fleshy part of the face bounded by the eyes, nose, ear, and jaw line.

(Cheek, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots of the family Araliaceae native to the Northern Hemisphere.

(Ginseng, NCI Thesaurus)

At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe; so I was very soon made free of Salem House (as Steerforth said), and was very soon in tears also.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I thought that I had heard the voice before, but when, over the shoulder of the valet, I caught a glimpse of a large, fleshy, bull-face, with a flattened Michael Angelo nose in the centre of it, I knew at once that it was my neighbour at the supper party.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Overfishing the waters near coral reefs, however, removes the primary algae-eaters from the environment, allowing populations of fleshy algae to explode.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)

Spank! went the right, with the clear, crisp sound of two billiard balls clapping together, and Berks reeled, flung up his arms, spun round, and fell in a huge, fleshy heap upon the floor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fleshy algae on reefs release copious amounts of nutrients known as dissolved organic carbon, which microbes eat.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)