red marrow

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsred bone marrow

   Broadermarrow

Questions about red marrow

What does red marrow mean?

red 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 marrow?

Close synonyms include red bone 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 marrow a common word?

red 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.