Miranda July

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

American Director

Miquita Oliver

It was rough having my body develop, fluctuate and become fleshier in front of the 'Popworld' cameras.

Cameron Diaz

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

American Actress

Use 'fleshy' to describe things like fruits that seem thick and potentially juicy inside.

Texture Focus

'Fleshy' often implies a desirable quality in food, indicating tastiness and richness.

Positive Connotation

'Fleshy' describes body parts that are soft and have extra flesh, without being derogatory.

Body Adjective

When describing people or body parts, 'fleshy' is neutral, avoid using it if a sensitive description is needed.

Neutral Descriptor

In botany, 'fleshy' details plant parts that are thick and store water, like in succulents.

Botanical Use

'Fleshy' in botany is technical; use it to sound more knowledgeable about plant biology.

Technical Context

Plants with 'fleshy' parts are often those that survive in tough conditions by storing nutrients.

Survival Strategy

 certain that fish very like it where the creatures from which the whole of the amphibians reptiles mammals and indeed man himself are ultimately descended every detail of its anatomy therefore is of absorbing interest its fins have long fleshy lobes at their base which make them quite unlike the fins of

Sir David Attenborough...

 the actual name given to a rare deep-sea species. But they are generally characterized by their long, cylindrical shape. A sea cucumber is essentially a brainless, fleshy form surrounding a digestive tract, bookended by a mouth and an anus. Adhesive tube feet run the length of their bodies

This sea creature...

 barely scratches the surface of how widespread they are in animals. There's an enormous amount of anatomical variation. You find muscular tubes, modified legs, modified fins, as well as the mammalian fleshy, inflatable cylinder that we're all familiar with -- or at least half of you are.

What we didn't know...

 socks which he hasn't taken off for days and discovers to his horror that his souls have detached from his feet they've turned into these hard and almost leather-like uh skins that are no longer attached to the the fleshy the flesh underneath or

Alone on the Ice: The...

 but what if the future is fleshy? Science and science fiction help us remember that we're made of star stuff. But can it also help us remember the wonder and weirdness of being made of flesh? Biology is us, it's our bodies, it's what we eat.

What happens when...

 which is really characteristic and it's basically this fleshy lump which has lots of bacteria in it, which is able to illuminate and then that attracts in all their prey and they're able to eat it with their incredibly wide mouths.

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 I carefully placed my hand into the clam's mouth and waited. I still have my hand. It seems that these gentle giants would rather retreat and protect their fleshy bodies than feed on me. So much for those killer clam myths!

The fascinating secret...

 the ability to gulp air from the water surface their fleshy fins became wait supporting legs and 375 million years ago a few of these backbone creatures followed the insects onto the land they were

Explaining the Tree of...

 reconstructions if you add this to the information from the other fleshy structures and what you can begin to do is put together a picture of the dinosaur as it might have appeared in life

The Making of Walking...

 ready to start its transformation into a butterfly but waiting in the wings is a tiny parasitic wasp looking for somewhere fleshy to lay her eggs she's watching for the moment when it will