fleshy - use in sentences

Preposition: in

  • texture: Very green in color with a kind of heart shaped leaf - Not at all waxy more fleshy in texture.

Modifies a noun

  • fruit: In Praise of Pears Pears are the fleshy fruit of a tree widely grown in most parts of the world, except the tropics.
  • root: You also need to take care of their tender fleshy roots.
  • leave: With their fleshy leaves, these hardy little plants will need next to no watering yet create a stunning display throughout the summer.
  • part: In fact they are very distinct on the fleshy part at the base of the thumb.
  • bit: Ear lobe: The fleshy bit just under the ears.
  • scale: The body of the bulb is made up of layers of fleshy scales which are modified leaves.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: It is very fleshy, the stem of the plant retaining water to enable it to live within the tidal area.
  • rather: Leaves rather fleshy, dark green above and greyish-white below due to dense coating of short hairs.
  • quite: Leaves: quite fleshy and coarsely toothed or lobed.
  • not: He was about the middle size, large boned, but not fleshy.

Used with adjective complement

  • have: They have fleshy, waxy leaves with a high capacity for water storage.

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