cartilage bone

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   any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue

   Broaderbone

Questions about cartilage bone

What does cartilage bone mean?

cartilage bone means "any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue".

Is cartilage bone a common word?

cartilage bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.