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Etymology
From carnose + -ity?
Noun
carnosity (countable and uncountable, plural carnosities)
- (uncountable) Fleshiness.
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “ The Natures of Trees that Beare Fruit.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , 1st tome, London: Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC, page 431:[T]hey ſuppoſe an Olive the more grovvne it is in carnoſitie, to be the fuller of oile: vvhereas in very truth, all the good juice in them is converted then into the groſſe and corpulent ſubſtance thereof, […]
- (countable) A fleshy caruncle or excrescence.
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