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fleshless

fleshless adjective: without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.

Adjective

fleshless (not comparable)

  1. Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
    • Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

fleshless meaning in Tamil and Kannada

fleshless in Tamil

வெண்டலை

fleshless in Kannada

ಅಮಾಂಸ

Origin of fleshless

From Middle English fleschles, flechles, equivalent to flesh + -less. Cognate with West Frisian fleisleas (“meatless”), Dutch vleesloos (“meatless”), German fleischlos (“meatless”).

Words formed from fleshless

Questions about fleshless

What does fleshless mean?
Fleshless means without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
What is fleshless in Tamil?
Fleshless in Tamil is வெண்டலை. See Fleshless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fleshless?
Fleshless is an adjective.

Words near fleshless in the dictionary

  1. fleshinesses
  2. fleshing
  3. fleshing one's maiden sword
  4. fleshing out
  5. fleshings
  6. fleshless
  7. fleshlessness
  8. fleshlier
  9. fleshliest
  10. fleshlight
  11. fleshlights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleshless (page history and authors); fleshless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fleshless (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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