flesh
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1.5
- noun
- /flɛʃ/
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- Please try the peach; its sweet flesh is a delight during summertime.
- skin and flesh
- edible flesh
- flesh quality
I don't like that stripes down them and the flesh looks really deep orange and yummy.
- I don't like that stripes down them and the flesh looks really deep orange and yummy.
Examples
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On this eggplant, the silk is the flesh, one and the same.
Fiction book (1991) -
They have usually a fairly sweet flesh, but a fairly thick skin.
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Like other clings, the flesh of the new peach remains firm, even as the fruit ripens.
Academic text (1994) -
The enzymes responsible for softening the flesh of both species during cooking are located within the muscle fibers.
Academic text (1993) -
Among the good attributes of Pacific grenadier flesh were firm texture, agreeable white color, and nonobjectionable taste.
Academic text (1990) -
Females use their tubelike ovipositors to pump tiny eggs into the flesh of ripening fruits and vegetables.
Academic text (1998) -
The juicy orange flesh is perfect for making a fresh fruit salad.
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The ripe mango has a smooth, buttery flesh that melts in your mouth.
Synonyms
12
3.0
The soft juicy part inside a fruit's skin
Firm white flesh inside a coconut shell that people use in cooking and baking
Idioms
- Literature
2
8.4
To join fully as a married couple, sharing their bodies and lives
Compounds
13
3.7
A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones
- Specialized
Extra soft raised tissue that grows around a cut and keeps the cut from closing
How Fleshy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flesh comes from an old German word meaning 'meat' and is like the modern German Fleisch. So the soft, edible part of a fruit is called its 'flesh' because it is the fruit's 'meat'.