Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of cartilage.
- adjective Having a skeleton consisting mainly of cartilage.
- adjective Having the texture of cartilage; firm and tough, yet flexible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gristly; consisting of cartilage; being in the state or form of cartilage.
- In ichthyology, having a gristly skeleton; chondropterygian: as, a cartilaginous fish.
- Like or likened to cartilage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Comprising of soft
cartilage rather thanbones . - adjective Related to or resembling cartilage
- adjective mycology Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom
stipe
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective difficult to chew
- adjective of or relating to cartilage
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the present creation fishes are either osseous or cartilaginous, that is, with bony skeletons, or with a framework of elastic, semi-transparent animal matter, like the shark; and the ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone unite these characteristics, resembling in some respects the osseous and in others the cartilaginous tribes.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the …
euronews 2009
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the …
euronews 2009
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the world.
euronews 2009
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Sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays and chimaeras, are cartilaginous fish (they contain no bones).
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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Sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays and chimaeras, are cartilaginous fish (they contain no bones).
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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Jack Musick, professor emeritus at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, helped oversee a global study that suggests roughly 33 percent of cartilaginous fishes are threatened.
Global extinction crisis looms, new study says Juliet Eilperin 2010
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But in a study of 25,000 vertebrates, 41% of amphibians are threatened, 25% of mammals, 22% of reptiles, 13% of birds, 33% of cartilaginous fish such as sharks, and 15% of bony fish such as southern bluefin tuna.
A War Against Extinction Gautam Naik 2010
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Jack Musick, professor emeritus at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, helped oversee a global study that suggests roughly 33 percent of cartilaginous fishes are threatened.
Global extinction crisis looms, new study says Juliet Eilperin 2010
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Jack Musick, professor emeritus at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, helped oversee a global study that suggests roughly 33 percent of cartilaginous fishes are threatened.
Global extinction crisis looms, new study says Juliet Eilperin 2010
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