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carnosities

carnosities is the plural of carnosity.

Meaning of carnosity

Noun

carnosity (countable and uncountable, plural carnosities)

  1. (uncountable) Fleshiness.
    • [T]hey ſuppoſe an Olive the more grovvne it is in carnoſitie, to be the fuller of oile: vvhereas in very truth, all the good juice in them is converted then into the groſſe and corpulent ſubſtance thereof, […]1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XV.] The Natures of Trees that Beare Fruit.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall...
  2. (countable) A fleshy caruncle or excrescence.

Questions about carnosities

What is carnosities the plural of?
Carnosities is the plural of carnosity.

Words near carnosities in the dictionary

  1. carnosinase
  2. carnosinases
  3. carnosine
  4. carnosinemia
  5. carnosinol
  6. carnosities
  7. carnosity
  8. carnosol
  9. Carnot
  10. Carnot cycle
  11. Carnot engine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carnosities (page history and authors); carnosity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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