marrowish

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Etymology[edit]

marrow +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

marrowish (comparative more marrowish, superlative most marrowish)

  1. Similar to bone marrow.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
      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; []

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