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comparative more cartilaginous, superlative most cartilaginous
(anatomy) Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
Related to or resembling cartilage. examples
(zoology, of a vertebrate animal) Having a skeleton of cartilage. quotations
[T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]
1692, John Ray, “Of Formed Stones, Sea-shells, and Other Marine-like Bodies Found at Great Distances from the Shores?”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], page 109
(mycology) Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom stipe.