red bone marrow

1. 1.

   bone marrow of children and some adult bones that is required for the formation of red blood cells

   Synonymsred marrow

   Broadermarrow

Questions about red bone marrow

What does red bone marrow mean?

red bone marrow means "bone marrow of children and some adult bones that is required for the formation of red blood cells".

What is another word for red bone marrow?

Close synonyms include red marrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red bone marrow a common word?

red bone marrow 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.