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English
Etymology
From Latin carnosus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
carnous (comparative more carnous, superlative most carnous)
- (rare or obsolete) Fleshy.
- 1658: It is no impossible Physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies; and after what shape the muscles and carnous parts might hang in their full consistences. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)
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