fleshnoun
uk/fleʃ/us/fleʃ/C2 [ U ] the soft part of the body of a person or animal that is between the skin and the bones, or the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable:
The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.
Vegetarians don't eat animal flesh (= meat).
The flesh of the fruit is white.
the flesh [ S ] literary
the physical body and not the mind or the soul:
This left him plenty of time to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh (= physical pleasures, such as sex or eating).
See also
fleshpot
More examples
- Soft tissue, such as flesh, allows X-rays through.
- He had undone the buttons of his shirt, exposing an unsightly expanse of white flesh.
- The bullet had only caused a flesh wound.
- The maggot had burrowed into the flesh of the apple.
- There was a terrible smell of putrefying flesh.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
The body
Idiom(s)
be (only) flesh and blood
be sb's own flesh and blood
in the flesh
make your flesh crawl/creep
put flesh on (the bones of) sth