Definition
the flesh (of a fruit): the pulp, the body, the tissue, the food part (of a fruit)
fleshy: plump, fat, chubby, meaty, chunky
My tattoo is on a fleshy part of my arm, so it did not hurt that much when they did it.
Pronunciation examples
UK: Jean accidentally stapled the fleshy part of his ear.
US: There's a lot of flesh on this bone.
- "The bullet passed harmlessly through the fleshy part of my arm, and no veins or arteries were damaged."
- "I want to thank you for your invaluable help over the last few weeks: Replacing the majority of our workforce with automatons and robots was no easy task, but your help in reducing our fragile, fleshy and weak human staff was done with ruthless, near robotic, efficiency."
- "My arms are like the flesh of the chicken."
- "Philip : It's not chicken flesh, it's called goosebumps, Frenchie."
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