marrow

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  I consider the marrow a much overrated vegetable
• WordNet 3.6
  • n marrow the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
  • n marrow the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience "the gist of the prosecutor's argument","the heart and soul of the Republican Party","the nub of the story"
  • n marrow large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins
  • n marrow very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
  • n marrow any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
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• Interesting fact: Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die.
• • Marrow One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. "Chopping and changing I can not commend,
    With thief or his marrow , for fear of ill end."
  • Marrow The essence; the best part. "It takes from our achievements . . .
    The pith and marrow of our attribute."
  • Marrow (Anat) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.
  • v. t Marrow To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.
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• • n marrow A soft tissue found in the interior of bones, both in the cylindrical hollow of the long bones and in the hollows of cancellated bony structures; the medulla or medullary matter of bone. It varies greatly in different situations. Ordinary marrow of the shafts of adult bones, as the humerus and femur, is a soft yellow solid, consisting of about 95 per cent. of fat. The red marrow of various bones, vertebral, cranial, sternal, and costal, is softer, and contains very few fat-cells, but numerous marrow-cells and cells resembling the nucleated red corpuscles of the embryo. The so-called spinal marrow, or medulla spinalis, is the spinal cord, the central axis of the nervous system, a tissue of an entirely different character, not found in the hollow of a bone, but in the cavity running through the chain of vertebræ.
  • n marrow The pith of plants.
  • n marrow The pulp of fruits.
  • n marrow Figuratively, the inner substance; the essence; the essential strength; the inner meaning, purpose, etc.; the pith.
  • n marrow The alligator-pear. See avocado.
  • marrow To fill with marrow or with fat.
  • n marrow A companion or mate; an associate; an intimate friend; a fellow; hence, one of a pair of either persons or things; a match: as, your knife's the very marrow o' mine.
  • marrow To associate with; hence, to match; fit.
  • marrow Soft; tender.
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• • n Marrow mar′ō the soft, fatty matter in the hollow parts of the bones: the pith of certain plants: the essence or best part of anything: the inner meaning or purpose
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• D. H. Lawrence

  

  “Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
• Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

  

  “History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”

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