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Meanings of fleshy in English

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

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        Spanish
        carnoso

        Of or relating to or resembling flesh.

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              carnoso
              Usage of fleshy in English
              1
              The fleshy leaves of the eucalyptus trees showed pale against the darkness.
              Pearl of Pearl Island
              2
              Not very fleshy, and in no respect superior to the other varieties.
              The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
              3
              Five months before he'd looked a fleshy thirty in a flattering light.
              Imajica: Complete Edition
              4
              Each filament held a fleshy mass about the size of my fist.
              Bare Bones
              5
              Jaime brought his hands together, the gold fingers inside the fleshy ones.
              A Dance with Dragons
              6
              Cartwright's hair and mustache were white; his face was fleshy and red.
              Lister's Great Adventure
              7
              Examination revealed a fleshy post nasal mass extending up to the oropharynx.
              Pubmed
              8
              Those who lacerate our simple pleasures, relentlessly, our fleshy ways and desires.
              The Irish Times
              9
              Ryll's were muscular but flat whereas Liett's were extremely fleshy and prominent.
              Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
              10
              The black walnut has both a hard shell and a fleshy covering.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
              11
              Anthocyanins are important health-promoting phytochemicals that are abundant in many fleshy fruits.
              Pubmed
              12
              The fleshy right hand of Hartley Parrish grasped convulsively an automatic pistol.
              The Yellow Streak
              13
              He was rather fleshy, but was in his appearance, amiable and benevolent.
              Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
              14
              Aunt Bieja slipped past him and wrapped Magiere in a fleshy hug.
              Sister of the dead
              15
              The Canadian, Conseil, and I sank our weapons into these fleshy masses.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
              16
              Her other hand held my chin, fingers digging in like fleshy metal.
              Circus of the Damned
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