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sarcous

sarcous adjective: fleshy.

Adjective

sarcous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) fleshy
    • sarcous elements that make up muscle fibre

Origin of sarcous

By surface analysis, sarc- + -ous.

Questions about sarcous

What does sarcous mean?
Sarcous means fleshy.
What part of speech is sarcous?
Sarcous is an adjective.

Words near sarcous in the dictionary

  1. sarcotrimitic
  2. sarcotripsy
  3. sarcotubular
  4. sarcotubule
  5. sarcotubules
  6. sarcous
  7. sarcovimiside
  8. sarculation
  9. sarculations
  10. sard
  11. Sard Cheena

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