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fleshy
CIDE DICTIONARY
fleshy, a.
- Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. [1913 Webster]"The sole of his foot is fleshy." [1913 Webster]
- Human. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fleshy, adj. (fleshier, fleshiest)
1 plump, fat.
2 of flesh, without bone.
3 (of plant or fruit tissue) pulpy.
4 like flesh.
1 plump, fat.
2 of flesh, without bone.
3 (of plant or fruit tissue) pulpy.
4 like flesh.
Derivative
fleshiness n.
THESAURUS
fleshy
adipose, baccate, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, doughy, dumpy, fat, fattish, flabby, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, macerated, masticated, meaty, mushy, obese, overweight, pasty, paunchy, pithy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, soft, spongy, square, squashy, squat, squatty, squelchy, squishy, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, succulent, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, weighty, well-fedROGET THESAURUS
fleshy
Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.For further exploring for "fleshy" in Webster Dictionary Online