MEANING
Containing or resembling tough cartilage, especially in its chewy or resistant texture.
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- gristly meat
- gristly tissue
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The knife met a gristly layer beneath the skin.
She rejected the gristly piece of meat before tasting it.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative gristlier; superlative gristliest. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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