cartilaginous tube

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   a duct with cartilaginous walls

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Questions about cartilaginous tube

What does cartilaginous tube mean?

cartilaginous tube means "a duct with cartilaginous walls".

Is cartilaginous tube a common word?

cartilaginous tube 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.