The corpus record — Latin

carnosus

carnosus · adj

abounding in flesh

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 38 · 0.96/10k
De Medicina 6 · 0.59/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

carnōsus — Lewis & Short

carnōsus, a, um, adj.2. caro,

I abounding in flesh, fleshy.

A Of animals: cervix, Cels. 4, 1: palatum aquatilium, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 171: manus, id. 11, 43, 98, § 243: crura, id. 11, 45, 105, § 253: candor carnosus sanguineis venis, id. 11, 37, 54, § 144.—Comp., Plin. 27, 8, 40, § 63.—

B Of plants: resina, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 123: folia, id. 16, 24, 38, § 90: radices, id. 16, 31, 56, § 127: misy carnosius, id. 19, 3, 12, § 36: carnosissimae olivae, id. 15, 3, 4, § 15; so also cortex, id. 25, 5, 21, § 53.

In the wild

carnosae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.31.p2
carnosi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.24.p2
carnosa Celsus, De Medicina 4.1.p14
carnoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.6.p1
carnosum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p26
carnosissimo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p6

6 of 45 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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