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CARTILAGE BONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cartilage bone mean?
• CARTILAGE BONE (noun)
The noun CARTILAGE BONE has 1 sense:
1. any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue
Familiarity information: CARTILAGE BONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("cartilage bone" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
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