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# marrow

«marrow» in Mova's school dictionary: **The soft tissue inside bones where new blood cells are made** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (marrow, marrows)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (bone marrow) The soft tissue inside bones where new blood cells are made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#m1)

2) (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A large, long, green vegetable like a giant courgette (zucchini). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#m2)

3) (to the marrow) Completely, deeply: «chilled to the marrow». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science: bone marrow makes red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets; people can donate bone marrow to save lives. In gardening: marrows grow big in summer, and people show them at village fairs. Phrases: «bone marrow», «marrow bone», «chilled to the marrow».

### examples

- Bone marrow makes new blood cells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x1)
- Grandpa grew a huge marrow in his garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x2)
- The dog chewed a marrow bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x3)
- We were frozen to the marrow after the snow walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x4)
- Marrow is like a big courgette. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x5)
- People can donate bone marrow to help sick patients. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x6)
- He heard them crack the small round bones with their strong long teeth and eat out the oily marrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marrow/#x7)

### note

Bone marrow is usually uncountable; the vegetable is countable (a marrow, marrows). In the USA the vegetable is usually called a squash; a courgette is a zucchini there.

### In the corpora

- [Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow, the soft middle of big bones, about 2 million every second.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/261-human-body-deeper-heart-and-blood/14/)
- [Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/2/)
- [Bone marrow inside many bones makes blood cells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/16/)
- [My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth doth praise Thee with joyful lips;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1023/)
- [It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.63/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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