How to say "flesh" in Japanese

• 肉にくJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounThe general word for flesh: the soft tissue of people and animals, and it also means meat as food. For the flesh of a fruit, use 果肉 instead.
  その動物どうぶつは肉にくを常食じょうしょくとしている。↗

  That animal feeds on flesh.
• 果肉かにくCommon
  nounThe flesh of a fruit: the soft part inside the skin, also called pulp. Use this only when the flesh you mean is a fruit's, not that of an animal or person.

Use 肉 for flesh in the general sense, including animal flesh and meat; use 果肉 when the flesh you mean is that of a fruit, in other words its pulp.

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• 肉にくflesh
• 果肉かにくflesh (of a fruit)
• 肉ししflesh (esp. of an animal)