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marrowish

marrowish adjective: similar to bone marrow.

Adjective

marrowish (comparative more marrowish, superlative most marrowish)

  1. Similar to bone marrow.
    • In the upper region serving the animal faculties, the chief organ is the brain, which is a soft, marrowish, and white substance, ingendred of the purest part of seed and spirits, included by many skins, and seated within the skull or brain-pan; […]1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Forms of marrowish

comparativemore marrowish
superlativemost marrowish

Origin of marrowish

From marrow + -ish.

Questions about marrowish

What does marrowish mean?
Marrowish means similar to bone marrow.
What part of speech is marrowish?
Marrowish is an adjective.

Words near marrowish in the dictionary

  1. marrowbone
  2. marrowbones
  3. marrowed
  4. marrowfat
  5. marrowfats
  6. marrowish
  7. marrowless
  8. marrowlike
  9. marrows
  10. marrowskies
  11. marrowsky

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