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semi-cartiˈlaginous, a.
[semi- 8 a.]
Of a texture approaching that of cartilage. Of fishes: Having a semi-cartilaginous skeleton.
1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 109 It is a singular circumstance, that those strong semi-cartilaginous substances should have the power of coagulating milk. 1829Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 374 Such [diseased] kidneys have generally a lobulated form and semicartilaginous hardness. 1841Miller Old Red Sandstone iv. (1887) 95 The semi-cartilaginous..fishes. 1865Lyell Elem. Geol. 553 Exchanged a..semi-cartilaginous spinal cord for an ossified one. |