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fleshiness



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Because of their size and fleshiness, these water lilies are notoriously difficult to collect, preserve, and study.

From Science Magazine Jul. 4, 2022

It was not lean, but it was well toned, without a lot of the fleshiness or sweet fruit often associated with Napa cabernets.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2021

At the end of this, I don’t need some crazy new fleshiness.

From Washington Post Jun. 10, 2021

She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness.

From The Guardian Jan. 31, 2020

Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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