How To Use Fleshy In A Sentence

  • _Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • The white fleshy oviduct is extruded, and the eggs are squeezed out.
  • We have virtually no fossils of tropical fleshy algae, especially the small soft epilithic species that characterize primary productivity on modern reefs.
  • Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
  • Described as plump, fleshy, bitter, salty and succulent all at once, their taste remains on the palate long after swallowing.
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  • Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance.
  • Rhus Bucki-Amelam is common here, an Oxalis occurs in very shady places with fleshy leaves, it is so large that it is scarcely referrible to O. corniculata. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • The spot-breasted lapwing is distinguished from its close relatives by the fleshy wattles in front of its eyes and by its black-spotted breast. Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
  • Getting any sort of fleshy pulp was very difficult, so I squeezed the fruits to get decent amounts of liquid.
  • In technical language, the surface from which these fleshy threads protrude, are called ambulacral areas, and the spaces between, interambulacral areas. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • The girl sobs with relief, folding her arms in a fleshy nest on the table top to cry into.
  • The bullet hit the fleshy part of his upper arm.
  • Paintings of fleshy nudes line the walls, and pillars are plastered with pictures of a chubby comic book character.
  • Cracids may have a casque, hard comb, wattle or fleshy knob at the base of the bill.
  • Sporting thin, jagged leaves upon a succulent, fleshy stem, the herb is easily uprooted and replanted due to its shallow root system.
  • In this paper it is demonstrated that transient expression can easily be performed in ripe fleshy fruits.
  • This, however, is only a fleshy outer rind -- epicarp -- which, as it ripens, opens into two equal parts, when within is seen a spherical polished nut, surrounding an aril, the mace, which is of a bright yellow colour. In the Eastern Seas
  • Across the intertragical notch is the prominence known as the antitragus, part of the stiff cartilaginous shelf from which hangs the fleshy auricular lobule earlobe. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Its eggy, lightly sweet base is a perfect catch-all for summer fruits, especially those of the soft, fleshy variety.
  • With your hand held loosely open, press the fleshy mound with the index finger of your other hand.
  • After following the latter for a few miles to the west, we took a path through beautifully wooded plains, with scattered trees of the Mahowa (_Bassia latifolia_), resembling good oaks: the natives distil a kind of arrack from its fleshy flowers, which are also eaten raw. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • He stood before us smiling and open-eyed while he ran long needles into the fleshy part of his arms and legs without flinching, and he allowed one of the gentlemen present to pinch his skin in different parts with strong crenated pincers in a manner which bruised it, and which to most people would have caused intense pain. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
  • This fleshy digit is his security blanket, his best friend and sole consolation in an overly-critical world.
  • An anglerfish depends on its prey being fooled by its camouflage and by the fleshy lure into which the first ray of its dorsal fin has been modified.
  • Pacific waterleaf is a rhizomatous perennial with fleshy roots and a solitary stem that arises from 20-80 cm.
  • Most fleshy plants and tender, newer plant growth will root very easily.
  • Coals flashed Marcus a grin, so full of perfectly capped teeth, so taut at the lips, so fleshy at the gum line that for a split second the image of a shark in an expensive wool suit was unavoidable.
  • Our concept of the fungi often ends with a few fleshy Basidiomycetes (agarics, boletes, puff balls) or even fewer Ascomycetes (morels and truffles). Huitlacoche
  • At the base of each tuft, from the apex to 1 ft. or more down the younger branches, there is a fleshy, green, awl-shaped leaf, from 2 in. to 5 in. long. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
  • Forming a vast expansion of the bony and fleshy framework are the quills, or flight-feathers, called collectively the "remiges. Our Bird Comrades
  • No, I cannot lay down with a hanger hooked on a zipper trying to mash my fleshy body into a dress too small for me.
  • Hormones have been implicated in the maturation of fleshy fruits, and ethylene and auxin appear to be of particular importance depending on the type of fruits.
  • This was instant Best Dish material, but there was also the knock - out tortelli: silken, fleshy, eggy squares filled with sweet pumpkin, anointed with an unctuous garlic, sage and pistachio butter and dusted with Parmesan.
  • Exhibition of 1851, among others, -- gomuti palm sugar (_Arenga saccharifera_) from Java; date palm sugar, from the Deccan; nipa sugar, from the stems of _Nipa fruticans_, and sugar from the fleshy flowers of _Bassia latifolia_, -- an East Indian tree. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • I remember the long green cucumber, soft and fleshy and a delight on that hot April forenoon.
  • Female ginkgoes produce the troublesome seeds, which are covered in a fleshy coating that contains butyric acid, also found in rancid butter. Laudator Temporis Acti
  • The guitarfish has a thick fleshy tail that resembles a shark's tail more than it does a ray's.
  • People climbed the trees to shake down the nuts, many still sheathed in the bright-green fleshy tegument, while other family members and relations combed the forest floor and picked them up. Wildwood
  • In plants with fleshy fruits, a major focus has been the dissection of biochemical and genetic regulatory cascades controlling ripening, using tomato as a model species.
  • The juice of a euphorbiaceous plant (Sapium aucuparium), which also yields caoutchouc, is so glutinous that it is used to catch parrots.) it might be supposed that, as it grows larger, the coagulable matter is deposed in the organs, and forms a part of the pulp, or the fleshy substance. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Fruiting in summer: Plant fleshy, sterile part mostly with lunate segments. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • His fleshy bill was the same shape as a ducks, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half. The Realms of the Gods
  • It has a deeply-keeled carapax, beautifully bossed, and a hideous triangular head, having curious, lobed, fleshy appendages, and nostrils prolonged into a tube. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • This incredible trailing groundcover has vivid fleshy leaves and succulent stems that enable it to store water and thrive in even the harshest climates.
  • Most of us can probably immediately recall the fleshy covers -- a pregnant Demi Moore on Vanity Fair, a topless Janet Jackson (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the bare and pseudo-tattooed Dixie Chicks on Entertainment Weekly -- that succeeded in generating some buzz. 'True Blood' stars get naked for Rolling Stone
  • As the lemurs digest the fleshy fruit, the seed is passed through their system, normally away from the parent tree.
  • The flowers and leaves tend to face only one way, leaving their backside just thick, fleshy bare stems. The Sun
  • Thus, when the fingers are bent, the fleshy parts of the flexors of the fingers, placed in the arm, contract, in virtue of their peculiar endowment as muscles; and pulling the tendinous cords, connected with their ends, cause them to pull down the bones of the fingers towards the palm. Essays
  • At the same time, Hals's celebration of the materiality of his medium is so seductive that sheer painterliness often overrides all other concerns, including the fact that his subjects are often blunt-featured, fleshy, self-satisfied types whose company you might not seek. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
  • -- Dark rufescent above, rufescent white below; hands and feet fleshy white; tail equal to length of head and body; "fur more gerbille-like in character than in _M. musculus_" (or Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • For yuccas, Addicott notes that the baccate (fleshy-fruited) species typically lose more seeds to yucca moth larvae than do the dry-fruited capsular yuccas.
  • Memorable Ones: Sperm wriggling their way into an egg; a tapeworm being removed from an artery of a very fleshy arm; happy little M& M figures sending cartoon messages to a cartoon brain. Boiling the Dog's Head
  • A small, fleshy fin called an adipose fin is found directly behind the dorsal fin in salmonids. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • The genus _Pleurotus_ is usually recognized without difficulty among the fleshy, white-spored agarics, because of the eccentric (not quite in the center of the pileus) or lateral stem, or by the pileus being attached at one side in a more or less shelving position, or in some species where the upper side of the pileus lies directly against the wood on which the plant is growing, and is then said to be _resupinate_. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • Parts of plants are generally described as ‘succulent’ if they are particularly fleshy, not woody, to the feel and noticeably watery if squashed.
  • Besides those aeruginous not ripe outside, some banana appearance are very yellow, but taste however fleshy qualitative hair is good, even some hair are acerbity.
  • It then pollinates the seed, but the actual fertilization of the seed does not occur until the fall, usually after the seed has fallen off the tree and the fleshy seed coat has rotted away.
  • +Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • He was well-built, but too fleshy to be impressive.
  • Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides.
  • He likes the fleshy folds in a voluptuous woman's body.
  • For example: are these revolving pink discs just fleshy cogs in some great mechanical system?
  • While distinctly fleshy now, sporting all the trappings of wealth and success, he still pushes life to its limit.
  • He has the pale, pasty set of the sedentary, a fleshy padding of indulgence and a deep, broad accent with an odd similarity to that of Charles Kennedy.
  • The walls were painted a pale almost fleshy pink colour (what might be described as anaemic salmon).
  • However, instead of stick figures, Latham's forms were fleshy and sensual.
  • It's nice to see the famous model displayed like a very ordinary, quite flawed, fleshy female.
  • Whereas there are a dozen different words for the taint aka grundle aka gooch aka fleshy fun bridge. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • The stem is fleshy to fibrous, the same color as the pileus, floccose scaly more or less up to the veil, smooth or white pruinose above the veil, straight or curved, somewhat striate below. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • A hesperidium fruit is a fleshy fruit or berry with a tough, leathery skin.
  • I have been cycling along the beach track for several months now, in the hope that the too-fleshy photo above will soon be replaced by my new, lantern-jawed Californian incarnation.
  • A reddish-blue percoid marine food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) of deep Atlantic waters, having a fleshy flap on the nape and small yellow spots on the upper sides and fins.
  • She was absorbed by the touch pool and especially the gumboot chiton (which resembles a fleshy marine pillbug). Julie Packard: An Ocean of Inspiration
  • An erect, herbaceous, dichotomously branched perennial, 60-180 cm high, with large, fleshy, cylindrical, obovoid subterranean rhizomes, large lanceolate leaves and white flowers arranged in twin clusters, which very rarely produce red seeds. Chapter 10
  • Once considered part of the Lily family, the daylily is more correctly placed into the Hemerocallidaceae family because they grow from tuberous, fleshy roots rather than bulbs. Brigitte Mars: Delightful Day Lilies with Brigitte Mars
  • Soft, fleshy, herbaceous plants are not always strong enough to support themselves. The Sun
  • He sat on his stool, his hands in his aproned lap, his big fleshy head swaying to the music.
  • Jane suspends the pips in muslin to help the marmalade set, but I just use the juice and fleshy pulp from the inside of a lemon… it does the same trick.
  • These consist of pieces of root about 5cm in length taken from plants with fleshy roots, such as anchusas, oriental poppies, gypsophilas, verbascums, romneyas, seakale and horse-radish.
  • The Colchicum is much larger with goblet-shaped, fleshy flowers that are resistant to rain and should be planted in midsummer.
  • Peppers produce these compounds only in glands located in their pods' placental partition, which is the white, fleshy membrane where the seeds are attached.
  • She wore her hair tied back, which only accentuated her large face and fleshy jowls.
  • Weapon and enemy modeling is a joke as well, every creature and weapon seems to have this weird type of fleshy texture to it that I can't really describe too well.
  • At the time of shooting, Lucia D'Elia was a young, pretty and exceedingly fleshy actress and its this fleshiness that particularizes the scene. The one you might have saved
  • All succulents are xerophytes, using their thick, fleshy leaves or stems to store moisture. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Colchicum is much larger with goblet-shaped, fleshy flowers that are resistant to rain and should be planted in midsummer.
  • In honour of my fellow Yellowknifer Janet Pacey and her unabashed love of ptarmigans I finally got off my haunches (which is defined as “the fleshy hindquarter of an animal” – definitely suitable) and got some ptarmigan shots. Ptarmigan Town » Dave Brosha Photography
  • The sheldrake ducks also have a fleshy growth on the bill. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
  • The nutmeg is the seed of the Indonesian Myristica fragrans whose small yellow flowers develop into a fleshy, scarlet fruit enclosing the meg.
  • Its downward-curving bill was mimicked in her drooping nose, the fleshy point suspended like a globule of cold sap. Raven Speak
  • It has three pairs of true legs on the thorax and five pairs of fleshy prolegs on the abdomen.
  • Sam's fleshy, thin, potato-chip ears, small patches of white hair on his head, blackheads, brown warts and moles make him hard to beat in the ugliest dog contest.
  • The root of the internal jugular vein, when injected, will be seen to occupy considerable space behind the clavicle; and the anterior scalenus muscle is substantial and fleshy. Surgical Anatomy
  • A bulbil is a bud which becomes an independent plant before it commences to elongate; it is generally fleshy, somewhat after the manner of a bulb, hence its name. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • A wart is a fleshy growth on the skin caused by infection with the human papilloma virus.
  • The seeds are attached to a durable fruit casing by a cord with a fleshy outgrowth, or aril, at its base that bats find appetizing.
  • -- The principal medicinal use of this plant in the Philippines is the introduction of the hot juice of its fleshy leaves into the external auditory canal in cases of otorrhoea or of simple earache, whatever its cause. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • It tastes beefy in every respect: fleshy, brawny and intense.
  • So there's not really any hope of finding a particularly fleshy part of my body.
  • The plant's shiny, fleshy leaves, stems and underground tuber store water, so it's able to go weeks without water.
  • A yellow ray of flowers appears on a long fleshy hollow stem.
  • You can add blocks of highlights with judicious use of fleshy plants. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soft, fleshy, herbaceous plants are not always strong enough to support themselves. The Sun
  • It puts up large, rather untidy leaves in the summer, they wither and vanish - and then, as the days start to shorten, overnight those irresistible, fleshy flower heads leap out of the soil.
  • The hip surface is very smooth with few hairs and few stipitate glands and with thick fleshy walls.
  • We have virtually no fossils of tropical fleshy algae, especially the small soft epilithic species that characterize primary productivity on modern reefs.
  • These can include loose/unstable joints which are prone to frequent dislocations, joint pain, fragile skin that bruises or tears easily, severe scarring, slow and poor wound healing, development of fleshy lesions (molluscoid pseudo tumors), chronic debilitating musculoskeletal pain, poor muscle tone, and gum disease. Emaxhealth
  • The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain. Archive 2008-12-01
  • The leaves are also fleshy with a prominent midrib, with five pairs of lateral veins.
  • Osmaterium - ia: fleshy, tubular, eversible processes producing a penetrating odor, capable of being projected through a slit in the prothoracic segment of certain Papilionid caterpillars, and from openings elsewhere in the bodies of other forms. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • The countess's long fleshy face emerges, ruinously ogling, from a stack of ostrich feathers and pendant geegaws.
  • The fishes fell into the calcareous sediment at the bottom where they were preserved, some with fine detail of the scales and the fleshy parts of the body.
  • The whole yew tree is poisonous, except for the pulp of the fleshy red berries that adorn it in autumn. Times, Sunday Times
  • The roots are perennial, and consist of several fasciculated, fusiform, branched, fleshy, curved and descending tubers, from one to two inches thick, with a brown warty epidermis; internally deep yellow, odorless, very bitter. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • For since bones afford not only rectitude and stability but figure unto the body, it is no impossible physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies, and after what shape the muscles and carnous parts might hang in their full consistencies. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • These provide a shady retreat from the heat of the day and their leafy foliage contrasts sharply with the spines of cacti and the fleshy leaves of succulents, like Kalanchoe, which are planted among them.
  • The cutting-edge design includes a roof planted with the fleshy leaved plant, Sedum, above a three tiered building with large windows.
  • This sponge comprises only a minor component of the diet of and is composed of soft, fleshy tissue.
  • The fleshy stems are angled with soft teeth, and no leaves.
  • They are often united by a band of skin across the forehead, and a tragus is present (a fleshy lobe that protrudes from the ear).
  • It never struck the ground, only fleshy bodies of muscles and organs.
  • Fruits are occasionally baccate, usually capsular and sometimes winged or lobed, or indehiscent and dry or fleshy.
  • TAKE ROOT If you are looking to propagate perennials, those with fleshy roots such as anchusa, phlox, verbascum, oriental poppy and acanthus lend themselves to root cuttings. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Her soft fleshy limbs are gaunt and thin. Christianity Today
  • While still natural-born skinnies, they have the presence and fleshy strength of a mature woman.
  • Many of the Reformers (by my reading of them) condemned the notion of real presence (and transubstantiation) because they interpreted it as a fleshy and physical presence (what you call crass and I might call immoderate realist). Sacramental Presence; Not Local--Thomas Aquinas
  • The boiled chrysalis of a species of silkworm is exposed for sale as a great delicacy, and so are certain kinds of hairless, fleshy caterpillars. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • A seared fennel-scented halibut with saffron mash, roast plum tomato and red pepper velouté was beautifully presented, with the fish as firm and fleshy as desired.
  • The set, by Christopher Oram, is a brooding garden, framed by large red, fleshy flowers, and gives the impression of a vast carnivorous plant, which seeks to ingest the characters on stage.
  • The mucosa was thickened, white, and fleshy in appearance with a small area of superficial ulceration.
  • Fleshy pads called pallipes are found on the feet of all chinchillids.
  • Where these trees are growing in natural bush, the fleshy fruit is a favourite with both vervet monkeys and the rarer samango monkeys.
  • The fleshy ‘berry’ to which they are attached is an enlarged, softened receptacle, corresponding to the small, white cone which remains on the stem of a raspberry when the fruit is picked.
  • Phyllanthus, the carpella of which are ovuliferous below, the upper part being fleshy, the stigmata are two to each, obviously corresponding to the placentary inflexions, while the sinus terminating the dorsal suture is totally naked; it is this which should bear the stigma if Lindley's view were correct. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Starapples are a soft fleshy fruit that have a stainy skin, they grow on a large tree and she was fond of them.
  • From gangly arm to fleshy middle, it's me: lovely, divine, and supremely perfect.
  • In fact, it's not hard to sympathize with the fallen devil, or even side with him - his character is more fleshy and alluring than that of the somewhat bland God of the poem.
  • In a fall, try to land on the fleshy parts of your body.
  • He answered the question again because Mr Bailey asked it again; Mr Bailey asked it again, because — accompanied with a straddling action of the white cords, a bend of the knees, and a striking forth of the top – boots — it was an easy horse – fleshy, turfy sort of thing to do. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Its thick, fleshy leaves combat the salt spray that comes off the sea. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many ripe fleshy fruits whose primary function is to attract seed dispersers also contain unpleasant chemicals that deter consumption by vertebrates.
  • The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upwards through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
  • The head and neck were a rich pink and the beak was fleshy pink.
  • It was white, fleshy and not oily, cooked in a light batter and served with a white cream sauce and mushrooms.
  • Once your hearts were spiritually what the tables of the law were physically, tables of stone, but God has "taken away the stony heart out of your flesh, given you a heart of flesh" (fleshy, not fleshly, that is, carnal; hence it is written, "out of your flesh" that is, your carnal nature), Eze Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • In case of need, one of the thick fleshy leaves can be broken off, the green outer layer scraped off and thick gel applied to the affected area.
  • They are mostly epiphytes and lithophytes with fleshy or wiry stems that may grow erect or pendant.
  • The fleshy pulp is orange or yellow, with a scent of pineapple, and full of seeds.
  • Blulaparon rigidum is very different from other members of its genus, which are low plants with fleshy leaves.
  • Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides.
  • The outermost layer becomes the investing skin-tube of the embryo; the layer for the nervous system forms the tubular rudiment of the brain and spinal cord; the mucous layer curls round to form the alimentary tube; the muscle layer grows upwards and downwards to form the fleshy and osseous tube of the body wall; even the vessel layer forms a tube investing the alimentary canal, but a part of it goes to form the medial "Gekröse," or mesenterial complex, which departs considerably from the tubular form. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • But beauty lay in the eye of the beholder, and the Edwardian cartophile beholders were fleshy fat persons, who consumed large dinners and showed their wealth through an excess of avoirdupois.
  • Description: An erect or prostrate decumbent fleshy herb with spreading branches. Chapter 7
  • The fruit, a drupe with fleshy pulp and a high fat content, contains a glucoside which makes olives, especially unripe ones, very bitter.
  • A cup-shaped staminate perianth with dorsal, fleshy, crestate appendages is present only in Endolepis dioica.
  • Both have fruits that are defined as pyrenes - having one or two seeds enclosed in indurate endocarp and surrounded by fleshy exocarp.
  • If you get another bleed, pinch the fleshy part of your nose firmly between finger and thumb for ten minutes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anthers inserted near the apex of the tube, short, fleshy, bilocular. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • The dull thump of booted feet slamming into my soft, fleshy parts. Times, Sunday Times
  • They seem to prefer unripe fruits, some of which were very sour, others intensely bitter, particularly the large red, fleshy arillus of one which seemed an especial favourite. The Malay Archipelago
  • The expression fleshy, so often met with in these pages, is used in speaking of plants when they are succulent and composed of juicy, cellular tissue. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • He was rather fleshy than muscular and a stranger would scarcely suppose that he had either the activity or the inclination for a poacher's life.
  • Mostly they pull it off: Hanks with his fleshy, sorrowing potato-face, and Newman, his ageless blue eyes glaring out with a predatory serenity, conjuring something Shakespearean and damned.
  • You will enjoy forbidden foods, satisfy your every taste in fleshy pleasures and intellectual self-indulgence. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Chism's second installation, Heaven, Hell and the Garden, offered a glimpse of a fleshy gnarl of cloth through a trap door as you mounted a low platform to admire a tall painting of sturdy underbrush.
  • He a fleshy face, bulging eyes and an air of absolute self - confidence .
  • You can add blocks of highlights with judicious use of fleshy plants. Times, Sunday Times
  • For years, the coelacanth which is found in fossil layers allegedly 70 million or more years old was believed to be an extinct transitional form, one of the “proofs” of evolution because of its fleshy, lobed fins. Gogonasus andrewsae - The Panda's Thumb
  • We picked up the rosy red ones first, as many as our arms could hold, and plopped down at the foot of the tree biting into the fleshy pulp.
  • Behind her scuffled two scrawny roosters, whose red, fleshy combs hung raggedly on the scabrous skin of their necks. DANSVILLE
  • Out near the lighthouse at Cabo Sardão the cliffs were smothered in mesembryanthemum, sherbet-yellow flowers in tangles of fleshy leaves.
  • From www.uga.edu/fruit: Fruit The true botanical fruit is a nut, about 1 long, shaped like a small boxing glove, hanging below a fleshy, swollen peduncle called the cashew apple or pseudofruit. Archive 2006-01-01
  • Lachenalias in general are small fleshy bulbs with two upright, opposite leaves.
  • [In Latin, _carunculæ myrtiformes_, which means in English myrtleberry-shaped caruncles; caruncle is a small fleshy elevation; derived from _caro_, which in Latin means flesh.] Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Looking at Moroni he saw a dark-skinned, fleshy face, pitted with the craters of acne. FINAL RESORT
  • She was a widow, fleshy, piggy-eyed, slack-mouthed, with a taste for sweet sherry.
  • Branches and fleshy shrubs and ferns mesh all around the warriors to slow their movement.
  • As the name suggests, succulents store water in their thick, fleshy leaves, thus being able to go for lengthy periods without any water.
  • They are everything you could possibly hope for in a tomato - stark red, heavy in your hand, thin-skinned and fleshy, fragrant, sweet and juicy.
  • Up to 30 cm across, it is usually found below 20m and can be easily recognised by its fleshy pink or white tentacles which, unlike most other anemones, it cannot retract.
  • The frontal shield and wattles are fleshy protuberances.
  • The fruit is a one-seeded drupe consisting of a fleshy exocarp and mesocarp and a hard endocarp that is united with the seed coat.
  • We recognize the wonderfully painted peaches and pear suggesting the fleshy cheeks and nose of "Vertumnus" (c. 1590), note his peapod eyelids and cardoon moustache, then fleetingly manage to see this paean to abundance as a portrait of the robust Rudolph II, before losing ourselves in cabbage leaves, olives, a blackberry eye, and the glistening cherries of his protruding Hapsburg lip. The Proto-Surrealist
  • Its leaves are shaped like spear-heads; the fruit is a kind of drupe, clothed in fleshy scales. The Castaways
  • From wikipedia: In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. Please Don't Pass The Nuts™
  • Pisces inclines to shortness, with the body marked as fleshy, plump, and sensitive to swellings and water retention.
  • For example, the fruit of pomegranate, having its husk filled with numerous fleshy seeds, became a symbol of fertility.
  • These small fleshy morsels of seafood in their marbled shells are a simple delicacy. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were fleshy, with veins that rose to the surface under the heat, and when we bit into them, they shot thick vermilion juice onto the tabletop.
  • Local ones are fleshy, ripe, and burst with flavor, according to local growers n versus what they call the pale, mealy "wannabees" coming from out of state! Undefined
  • But, as Adam broke through the line of fleshy foliage it didn't take him long to find who was waiting for it.
  • Very fleshy, three to ten inches high, sterile segment subsessile, borne near the middle of the plant, oblong, simple pinnate with three to eight pairs of lunate or fan-shaped divisions, obtusely crenate, the veins repeatedly forking; fertile segment panicled, two to three pinnate. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • The stem is either entirely cartilaginous or has a cartilaginous rind, while the central portion of the stem is fibrous, or fleshy, stuffed or fistulose. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • They resembled a cross between a cactus and an aloe vera plant; thick and fleshy, with hairs extruding from their tendrils.
  • Like many other clichés, that of the rosbif, the beef-fed Englishman with a fleshy face and high colour, contains more than a grain of truth.
  • And there were other melancholy flowers also: fleshy ranunculi with rusty tints, hyacinths and tuberoses that exhaled asphyxia and died from their own perfume. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
  • He enjoyed the sensation of his full belly hanging over his loose pajama bottoms, unconstricted and merry in its fleshy freedom.

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