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English
Etymology
From French cartilagineux or directly from Latin cartilāginōsus.
Adjective
cartilagineous (comparative more cartilagineous, superlative most cartilagineous)
- Archaic form of cartilaginous.
1692, John Ray, “Of Formed Stones, Sea-shells, and Other Marine-like Bodies Found at Great Distances from the Shores?”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC, page 109:here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]
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