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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