In vertebrate animals, flesh is the colloquial term for biological tissue which consists of skeletal muscles and fat as opposed to bones, viscera and integuments. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it commonly is called meat.
Famous quotes containing the word flesh:
“How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“In this first heaven of knowing,
The flesh takes on the pure poise of the spirit,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“He was a thing to her so foul that all her feminine nature recoiled from the closeness of his presence, and her flesh crept as she felt that the same atmosphere encompassed them. And this man was to be her husband!”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)