a. ? Obs. [ad. L. carnōs-us fleshy, f. carn- flesh: see -OUS.]
1. Consisting of or abounding in flesh; fleshy.
1577. Vicary, Englishm. Treas., Kj (1586), 42. A carnous pannicle.
a. 1683. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts (1684), 17. A fair and carnous state of Body.
1694. J. Turner, in Phil. Trans., XVIII. 17. Much more like a Sceleton than a carnous Substance.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 24. All the Parts, both carnous and osseous.
1779. Pott, Chirurg., II. 63. A hard, firm, incompressible, carnous kind of body.
2. Of fruits, roots, etc.: Pulpy, fleshy.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XV. iii. [The] stones and carnous matter [of olives]. Ibid., II. 19. The roots of some be carnous and fleshie … namely of the Beet.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 199. Such [Herbs] as have a carnous substance, and will never become lignous.
