The parts composed chiefly of skeletal muscle as distinguished from internal organs, bone, and integument. Flesh is any aggregation of soft tissues of an organism Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called flesh. 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 soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat Thought the boy needed some more flesh on his bones. Flesh is the part of a body that's made of muscles and fat If you grab the flesh of your little brother's arm to keep him from running into the street, you're holding the soft part of his arm. Flesh (usually uncountable, plural fleshes) the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat Quotations the flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak The physical or animal nature of humankind as distinguished from its moral or spiritual nature The needs of the flesh.
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