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• The cere is the fleshy spot just above the beak where the nostrils, or nares, are located.[2021, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry cere
• But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami.2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman. From the entry umami
• The fleshy sacks that dangled down between his legs, like rotting ackees, wobbled.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 7, in Small Island, London: Review, pages 104–105. From the entry ackee
• Fleshy, fantastic and sprawling, her elaboration of unnaturality is distinguished by two factors.2004, Tessa Jackson, Artes Mundi, Artes Mundi: Wales international visual art prize 2004. From the entry unnaturality
• The outer sepaloids are triangular scale-like, thick, greenish or variously reddish-colored, and fleshy.1997, Beat Ernst Leuenberger, Maihuenia: Monograph of a Patagonian Genus of Cactaceae, page 22. From the entry sepaloid
• Gamma, Lindane, Lintaf and Hepta Chlore etc. inside the fleshy part of the animal.1995, Rahul Shukla, Killing Grounds: The Saga of Encounters in Wild, Siddhi Books, page 114. From the entry cattlehead
• Don't let this flatlander misfool you, preacher,” he warned, holding out a fleshy hand.1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, page 101. From the entry misfool
• Here's what I don't like: overhumanized TFs (eg: fleshy faces, Primus theory), and unrealistic humans.1994 April 19, Steven Mar, “Don't Blame B.Budiansky!!!”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet), retrieved 24 Mar 2022. From the entry overhumanize
• The mystacial pads are large and fleshy, extending beyond the nostrils.1993, Thomas A. Jefferson, Stephen Leatherwood, Marc A. Webber, Marine Mammals of the World, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry mystacial
• There is also the three-cornered jack, which runs along the ground and has somewhat fleshy green leaves.1969, Percival Vincent Wake, Opal men, page 23. From the entry three-cornered jack
• The gills are never corky or woody and only slightly fleshy, usually arid and toughish.1918, Calvin Henry Kauffman, The Agaricaceae of Michigan, Volume 1. From the entry toughish
• The majority of macroscopic fleshy fungi are basidiomycetes.2008, Donald M. Huffman, Lois H. Tiffany, George Knaphaus, Rosanne A. Healy, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United…. From the entry basidiomycete
• The boys liked to watch each other get dressed, and oh those pink fleshy plumpies with sturdy little legs!2006, Kathleen de Azevedo, Samba Dreamers, page 170. From the entry plumpie
• Freedom, health, and breath cannot coexist with a limitless surge of fleshy billions, doubling in decades to decabillions and doubling again.2004, Paul R. Fleischman, “Introduction to the Second Edition”, in Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry…. From the entry decabillion
• Only fleshy fruits are intended for consumption by vertebrates.1994, P. W. Lucas, “Categorisation of food items relevant to oral processing”, in D. J. Chivers, P. Langer, editors, The Digestive System…. From the entry peely
• Also, the fleshy root of sincamas which were on sale in market stalls in Bícol were small and fibrous.1976, The Philippine Journal of Coconut Studies - Volumes 1-5, page 180. From the entry sincamas
• The boletes, or fleshy pore fungi, are a conspicuous element of the summer and fall "mushroom" flora of Michigan.1971, Alexander Hanchett Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers, The Boletes of Michigan, University of Michigan Press, page 1. From the entry bolete
• I never heard of them.” His fleshy bill was the same shape as a duck's, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half.2009, Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods, page 39. From the entry duckmole
• But a panda's forepaws are specially adapted for manipulating bamboo stems, with a modified elongated wrist bone forming the pseudothmb covered by a fleshy pad.2008, Heather Angel, Panda. From the entry pseudothumb
• Feathery False Lily Of The Valley has arching or erect stems up to 3 feet (1 m) tall that arise from a fleshy underground stem.2007, George Wilby Scotter, Hälle Flygare, Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains, Whitecap Books, page 55. From the entry feathery false lily of the valley
• Dangling head-down from a piece of siding on the house, the caterpillar shed its skin like a fleshy lady ooching out of her panty hose.2002, Stephanie Mills, “The Others”, in Epicurean Simplicity, Washington, D.C.: Shearwater Books, Island Press, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry ooch
• When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8. From the entry snood
• We returned to the crossing, passing slowly through the high rusty stands of dock weeds and the fleshy beds of dense paspalum.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 249. From the entry paspalum
• The onion is an all-year-rounder, but in winter, above all, it is a little of the earth’s springtime preserved in its fleshy bulb.1973, Robert Courtine, The Hundred Glories of French Cooking, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 330. From the entry year-rounder
• Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58. From the entry stewed
• The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic…. From the entry leathery
• There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry tamarix
• An important founding element was a form of late Mannerist ornament now called auricular, named after the fleshy parts of the ear, which it somewhat resembles.2009, Evonne Levy, “The Cornaro Chapel”, in Michael Snodin, Nigel Llewellyn, editors, Baroque, 1620-1800: Style in the Age of…. From the entry auricular style
• Among dioecious species and genera in the Cape flora, there is a higher than expected incidence of wind pollination, fleshy fruits, and nonwoodiness when each variable is analyzed independently.1989, {unattributed}, Biology Digest - Volume 15, Issues 5-9 - Page 21. From the entry nonwoodiness
• He has an oval face, a pronounced hawk’s nose, deep-set, bulging eyes with bushy eyebrows separated by a deep vertical crease, and a broad mouth with fleshy lips.[1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115, column 2. From the entry Qian
• Common to both subtypes are, to mention this briefly, a low, padded forehead ; rather pronounced coronions ; and a small mouth with curved, fairly fleshy lips.1955, Anthropos - Volume 50, page 820. From the entry coronion
• The awa plant is a species of pepper, the piper methysticum of the botanist, and is described as having fleshy stems from two to three feet high.1900, Oliver P. Emerson, “The Awa Habit of the Hawaiians”, in All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii…. From the entry awa

Meaning of fleshy

1. adjective Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
2. adjective Having considerable flesh; plump.
3. adjective Rich and smooth, with significant body or texture.

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How do you use fleshy in a sentence?

Fleshy is used as an adjective. For example: “He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.”

What is a short sentence with fleshy?

“a fleshy wine”

What does fleshy mean?

Fleshy means of, related to, or resembling flesh.