fleshyadjective
uk/ˈfleʃ.i/us/ˈfleʃ.i/having a lot of soft flesh
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- meaty
- middle-age spread
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- rotund
- well built
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fleshiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈfleʃ.i.nəs/us/ˈfleʃ.i.nəs/
Examples from literature
- He was a fleshy, jolly man.
- In the soft and fleshy part of the palm at the base of the thumb were the scars of several wounds.
- None of the fleshy fungi have long lives.
- The fleshy part is juicy, and somewhat like the cashew-apple, with a pleasant acidity added.
- The long, slender root becomes fleshy and tender under cultivation, with a flavor, when cooked, somewhat resembling that of the mollusk for which it is named.