fat body

British  

noun

1. a mass of fatty tissue in insects, used as an energy source during hibernation and metamorphosis

2. a similar tissue mass in amphibians and reptiles

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Example Sentences

Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city and her fat body.

From Los Angeles Times

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

"We found that the fly version of this protein is expressed in the fat body and brain which are analogous to the human liver and central nervous system respectively," Dr. Mengqi Ma, one of the first authors and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bellen lab, said.

From Science Daily

Among our fellow mammals, which are less freewheeling because of the twin constraints of lactation and live birth, there are varied connections between gametes and body fat, body size, muscles, metabolism, brain function and much more.

From Scientific American

“People pay me for my fat body — they pay me a lot of money.”

From Los Angeles Times