Cartilaginous meaning

kär'tl-ăj'ə-nəs
Of, relating to, or consisting of cartilage.
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Having a skeleton consisting mainly of cartilage.
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Having the texture of cartilage; firm and tough, yet flexible.
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Of or like cartilage; gristly.
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Having a skeleton made up mainly of cartilage, as any of a class (Chondrichthyes) of fishes (cartilaginous fish), including sharks, rays, and skates.
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Of, relating to, or consisting of cartilage.
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Having the texture of cartilage; firm and tough, yet flexible.
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Comprising of soft cartilage rather than bones.

Cartilaginous fish such as the angler fish have a skeletal structure made up of cartilage.

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Related to or resembling cartilage.
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(mycology) Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom stipe.
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Having a skeleton consisting mainly of cartilage.
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Origin of cartilaginous

  • From Latin cartilāginōsus: compare French cartilagineux.
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Cartilaginous Sentence Examples

  • In humming-birds and petrels the trachea is partly divided by a vertical, longitudinal, cartilaginous septum.

  • 6, 3); the seeds contain a small embryo in a copious fleshy or cartilaginous endosperm.

  • But it was now made to appear that the struthious birds in this respect resembled, not only the duck, but a great many other groups - waders, birds-of-prey, pigeons, passerines and perhaps all birds not gallinaceous - so that, according to Cuvier's view, the five points of ossification observed in the Gallinae, instead of exhibiting the normal process, exhibited one quite exceptional, and that in all other birds, so far as he had been enabled to investigate the matter, ossification of the sternum began at two points only, situated near the anterior upper margin of the side of the sternum, and gradually crept towards the keel, into which it presently extended; and, though he allowed the appearance of detached portions of calcareous matter at the base of the still cartilaginous keel in ducks at a certain age, he seemed to consider this an individual peculiarity.

  • The duck, on the other hand, when newly hatched, and for nearly a month after, has the sternum wholly cartilaginous.

  • cartilaginous skeleton inside the bone armor.

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