cartilaginous.

Consisting of or supported by cartilage.

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• cartilaginous skeleton

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A cartilaginous skeleton supported the creature.

The cartilaginous ring bent under pressure.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.