The species eat squid, octopus, Pacific hake and other boney fishes, various cartilaginous fishes, and jawless fishes.
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Cartilaginous
/ˌkɑː.tɪˈlad͡ʒ.ɪn.əs/
Synonyms for "cartilaginous" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Adjective(6 words)
amphiarthrodial jointscartilage-basedcartilage-bound jointscartilage-containingchondralchondral joints
Strong matches (9)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (15)
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
7 entriesCollocations
6 entriescartilaginous endoskeletoncartilaginous fishcartilaginous frameworkcartilaginous jointscartilaginous skeletoncartilaginous tissue
Inflections
2 entriesmore cartilaginousmost cartilaginous
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 17 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- cartilaginós adj (comprising cartilage)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 软骨的 adj (comprising cartilage)
Czech
1 entries- chrupavčitý adj (comprising cartilage)
Esperanto
1 entries- kartilaga adj (comprising cartilage)
Finnish
1 entries- rustoinen adj (comprising cartilage)
French
1 entries- cartilagineux adj (comprising cartilage)
Galician
1 entries- cartilaxinoso adj (comprising cartilage)
German
1 entries- knorpelig adj (comprising cartilage)
Greek
1 entries- χονδρικός adj (comprising cartilage)
Hungarian
1 entries- porcos adj (comprising cartilage)
Italian
1 entries- cartilaginoso adj (comprising cartilage)
Navajo
1 entries- ooshgę́ęzhii adj (comprising cartilage)
Old English
1 entries- gristlen adj (comprising cartilage)
Polish
2 entries- chrząstkowy adj (comprising cartilage)
- chrzęstny adj (comprising cartilage)
Romanian
1 entries- cartilaginos adj (comprising cartilage)
Spanish
1 entries- cartilaginoso adj (comprising cartilage)
Turkish
2 entries- kıkırdaklı adj (comprising cartilage)
- kıkırdaksı adj (comprising cartilage)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Cartilaginous fish such as the angler fish have a skeletal structure made up of cartilage.
Source: wiktionary
[T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]
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