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PROUD FLESH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("proud flesh" is a kind of...):
granulation; granulation tissue (new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process)