Usually means: Soft tissue covering human body.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flesh: Merriam-Webster
  2. flesh, the flesh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flesh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flesh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flesh: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flesh, flesh: Wordnik
  7. flesh, the flesh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flesh: Wiktionary
  9. flesh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flesh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flesh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flesh, flesh: Dictionary.com
  13. flesh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flesh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flesh (album), Flesh (color), Flesh (comics), Flesh (disambiguation), Flesh (novel), Flesh (theology), Flesh, The Flesh (Doctor Who), The Flesh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flesh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flesh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flesh: Rhymezone
  19. flesh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flesh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flesh: FreeDictionary.org
  22. flesh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flesh: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. flesh: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flesh: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flesh: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flesh: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. flesh: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. flesh: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flesh: Easton Bible
  2. Flesh: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flesh: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. FLESH, flesh: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fleshed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
noun:  The skin of a human or animal.
noun:  (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
noun:  Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
noun:  The human body as a physical entity.
noun:  (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
noun:  (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
noun:  The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
noun:  (obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
noun:  (obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
noun:  A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
verb:  (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
verb:  (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
verb:  (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
verb:  (transitive) To glut.
verb:  (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
verb:  To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

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