| 单词 | gristle |
| 释义 | gristle (once / 14088 pages) n WORD FAMILY gristle: gristles, gristly USAGE EXAMPLESThat midseason stretch was supposed to chew Washington up, but this team appears less fat and more gristle than anyone imagined. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) But without these knotty meditations, the film’s intellectual meat is stripped away, leaving only bones, gristle and a few scraps. New York Times(Oct 20, 2016) “Scrapping … real gritty, all the way down to the bone and gristle. Fight, fight, fight.” Washington Times(Sep 25, 2016) n tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults Syn|Hypo|Hyper cartilage meniscus, semilunar cartilage (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint fibrocartilagecartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue hyaline cartilagetranslucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton arytaenoid, arytenoid, arytenoid cartilageeither of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached Adam's apple, thyroid cartilagethe largest cartilage of the larynx animal tissue the tissue in the bodies of animals |
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