flesh red (flesh red)

and a. I. n. The red color of flesh or muscle. The Struthio) camel us has the exposed surfaces of the head, neck, thighs, and legs of a flesh -red. Smithsonian Report (1883), p. 782. II. a . Resembling more or le closely the red color of flesh or muscle: as, a flesh -red variety of feldspar. flesh-spicule (flesh's pikul), n. In sponges, a spicule not forming part of the supporting skel eton.