Unscramble

c 3 a 1 r 1 t 1 i 1 l 1 a 1 g 2 i 1 n 1 o 1 u 1 s 1

13 letters · 16 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective of or relating to cartilage

adjective difficult to chew

originBorrowed from Latin cartilāginōsus (“full of cartilage, very gristly”), from cartilāgō (“cartilage, gristle”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”); compare French cartilagineux. Equivalent to cartilage + -ous, with modifications made to its morphology.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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