yellow bone marrow

1. 1.

   bone marrow that is yellow with fat; found at the ends of long bones in adults

   Synonymsyellow marrow

   Broadermarrow

Questions about yellow bone marrow

What does yellow bone marrow mean?

yellow bone marrow means "bone marrow that is yellow with fat; found at the ends of long bones in adults".

What is another word for yellow bone marrow?

Close synonyms include yellow 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 yellow bone marrow a common word?

yellow 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.