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Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy. "Carneous fibers." Ray.

Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray.

A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. Wiseman.

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.

lars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm,…

One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duk…

The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

adence. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.…

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

arm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. Spenser.

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the rids and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.