cartilaginous
Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
Other meanings
Related to or resembling cartilage.
Having a skeleton of cartilage.
Related words
- cartilaginous fish
- cartilaginously
- fibrocartilaginous
- intercartilaginous
- intracartilaginous
- membranocartilaginous
- neocartilaginous
- noncartilaginous
- osseocartilaginous
- osteocartilaginous
- precartilaginous
- semicartilaginous
Word history
From Latin "cartilāginōsus" (full of cartilage, very gristly).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cartilaginous” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.