Definition of "carneous" [car•ne•ous]

• Consisting of, or like, flesh; fleshy. (adjective)

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• "The scapula, covered by thick carneous masses, does not lie in the living body directly upon the osseous-thorax, neither does the clavicle."
• "In one specimen I noticed a carneous degeneration, but this is really no reflection on Mr. Flannery personally."
• "June was composed of grasses neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end uppermost and forming the mouth or entrance; it was lined first with cottony seed-down, and then with fine grass-stalks; it was suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs of a carneous white colour, thicky freckled with deep rufous, and with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end."