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# cartilaginous

«cartilaginous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of cartilage, the tough, bendy tissue found in your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cartilaginous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of cartilage, the tough, bendy tissue found in your ears, nose and the ends of bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#m1)

2) (of fish) Having a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone, like sharks and rays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on animals, «cartilaginous fish» (sharks, rays, skates) are one big group of fish; «bony fish» (like salmon and goldfish) are the other. In lessons on the body, cartilage cushions joints. It tells the reader about a bendy, rubbery material.

### examples

- Sharks are cartilaginous fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x1)
- Your ears are cartilaginous, so they bend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x2)
- Rays and skates have cartilaginous skeletons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x3)
- The tip of your nose is cartilaginous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x4)
- Cartilaginous fish have no swim bladder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x5)
- We compared cartilaginous fish with bony fish in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/#x6)

### note

Adjective from «cartilage». Said «kar-ti-LAJ-i-nus». Long, scientific word; in plain talk say «made of cartilage» or «gristly». Sharks do not have bones at all, apart from teeth, which are not bone either.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cartilaginous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartilaginous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.