gristle

FREQ #42508

n. 软骨 [医] 软骨

发音

其它 /ˈɡɹɪsəl/
US /ˈɡɹɪsəl/

词形变化

gristles 复数 gristles

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.

    软骨

    脆骨

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  2. 2.

    Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice, It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

cartilage

下位词 8

Adam's apple arytaenoid arytenoid arytenoid cartilage fibrocartilage hyaline cartilage meniscus thyroid cartilage

部分词 3

matrix collagen ground substance

相关短语

in the gristle

词源

From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).

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