fat body
Britishnoun
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a mass of fatty tissue in insects, used as an energy source during hibernation and metamorphosis
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a similar tissue mass in amphibians and reptiles
Example Sentences
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Testing the technique in fruit flies, the researchers found that 51 proteins voyaged from the animals’ muscles to their heads and 269 moved from the fat body, the insects’ main energy storehouse, to their legs.
From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024
“People pay me for my fat body — they pay me a lot of money.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023
The fat body is a nutrient-dense organ that functions much like the liver in mammals.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022
"A magazine like that has never put someone like me, an actual fat body, on the cover of a magazine," she told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2018
He looked like a figure out of a Tarzan movie; he was dressed in animal bones, shells, bladders and skins, and his fat body and deadpan face were caked with red clay.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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