0 the soft part of the body of a person or animal that is between the skin and the bones, or the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable -- (人或动物的)肉;果肉;蔬菜的可食部分
He had undone the buttons of his shirt, exposing an unsightly expanse of white flesh.
There was a terrible smell of putrefying flesh.
The real meaning becomes clearer in the first edition's 'closed up the flesh in stead thereof'.
Experiments were monitored every 2-7 d when fruits were palatable to elephants and every 2-4 wk when the flesh had rotted.
Medieval authorities insisted that martyrs were impassible because their flesh was materially and supernaturally different from normal human flesh.