Definition of fleshy

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Fleshy (superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants..

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Sarcous :: Sarcous (a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed..
Chap :: Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings..
Yamp :: Yamp (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California..
Pepo :: Pepo (n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd..
Water Cock :: Water cock () A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora..
Live-forever :: Live-forever (n.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine..
Fatten :: Fatten (v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered..
Wattled :: Wattled (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat..
Corticifer :: Corticifer (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark..
Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..
Chops :: Chops (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth..
Rand :: Rand (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak..
Fat :: Fat (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy..
Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous..
Uvula :: Uvula (n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Pulpy :: Pulpy (n.) Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry..
Apple :: Apple (n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
Spadix :: Spadix (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe..
Issue :: Issue (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part..
Stephanotis :: Stephanotis (n.) A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes..
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