Crossword-Solution: CARTILAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cartilage | n. | A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CARTILAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ELASTIC flexible bone tissue | 1 answer |
| FOETUS, bone of | 1 answer |
| Joint tissue | 1 answer |
| WHITE semi-opaque connective tissue | 1 answer |
| mostly converted to bone in adults | 1 answer |
| MATRIX site | 2 answers |
| BONE tissue | 3 answers |
| Gristle | 3 answers |
| Kind of bone | 5 answers |
| A CANCEROUS ULCER OF SOFT TISSUE AND BONE | 11 answers |
| Connective tissue | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
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greedy person
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Sentences with CARTILAGE (5)
The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.
There was the same shortening of the pinna, the same broad curve of the upper lobe, the same convolution of the inner cartilage.
Long-Beard laughed, too, the five-inch bodkin of bone, thrust midway through the cartilage of his nose, leaping and dancing and adding to his ferocious appearance.
His great teacher, Johannes Muller, had called attention to the strange resemblance to vegetable cells shown by certain cells of the chorda dorsalis (the embryonic cord from which the spinal column is developed), and Schwann himself had discovered a corresponding similarity in the branchial cartilage of a tadpole.
The nose, which chiefly determines the value of the profile, must recede gently and uniformly in the direction of the eyes; where the cartilage ceases, there may be a slight elevation, but not so marked as to make the nose aquiline, which is not pleasing in women; the lower part must be less strongly coloured than the ears, but not of a chilly whiteness, and the middle partition above the lips lightly tinted with red.
Quotes with CARTILAGE (3)
Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard.
That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.
I found myself surrounded by really old veterans wearing hats that said, "Retired Marine - SEMPER FI." These hats didn't appear to fit on their heads, but instead seemed to hover over them. At one point, I mistakenly tried to take the last box of crackers that a veteran also wanted. He started yelling, "I ran away from home at seventeen, lied about my age, and joined the Corps! I fought in World War II, Korea, and NAM! I have no cartilage in my right knee! It's bone-on-bone, …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1989–2002).