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What does cartilaginous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
  2. Related to or resembling cartilage
  3. (mycology) Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom stipe
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The adventitia contains the cartilaginous rings interconnected by connective tissue.
Among vertebrates, only the cartilaginous fishes, lungfishes and amphibians possess exceptionally large C-values.
The menisci are two pads of cartilaginous tissue which serve to disperse friction.
These organisms had a cartilaginous internal skeleton and a bony exoskeleton.
Like all sharks, dogfish have no true bones but make do with a cartilaginous skeleton.
Although most of the nasal structures are cartilaginous, the nasal bones usually are fractured in an injury.

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