cartilage

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartilāgō. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.

You will observe from the cartilage that this is no fossil specimen, but recent. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
The spermatic vessels, like a The cartilages, like a field- cully-mully-puff. tortoise, alias a mole. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
The Makuna wear a long black pin, a palm-spine, through the cartilage of the nose. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

gristle

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