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What does cartilaginous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
  2. Related to or resembling cartilage
  3. (mycology) Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom stipe
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The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes.
The adventitia contains the cartilaginous rings interconnected by connective tissue.
By the late Devonian, 360 million years ago, early cartilaginous fish and bony fish were diversifying.
That is, the cartilaginous radials extend to margins of pectoral fin, functionally and physically displacing the keratinous ceratotrichia.
The human larynx is composed of cartilaginous tissue that early in adulthood progressively undergoes ossification.
The xiphoid process, also known as the xiphisternum is a small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum.

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