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mar·row

(măr′ō)

1. Bone marrow.

2. The spinal cord.

3. The marrow squash.

a. The inmost, choicest, or essential part; the pith.

b. Strength or vigor; vitality.

[Middle English marow, from Old English mearg.]

mar′row·y adj.

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marrow

(ˈmærəʊ)

1. (Anatomy) the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones

2. the vital part; essence

3. vitality

4. (Cookery) rich food

5. (Plants) Brit short for vegetable marrow

[Old English mærg; related to Old Frisian merg, Old Norse mergr]

ˈmarrowy adj

marrow

(ˈmærəʊ; -rə)

dialect chiefly Northeast English and Durham a companion, esp a workmate

[C15 marwe fellow worker, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Icelandic margr friendly]

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mar•row

(ˈmær oʊ)

n.

1. the soft fatty vascular tissue in the cavities of bones: a major site of blood cell production.

2. the inmost or essential part.

3. strength; vitality.

4. Chiefly Brit. vegetable marrow.

[before 900; Old English mearg, c.Old High German marg, Old Norse mergr]

mar′row•y, adj.

mar·row

(măr′ō)

See bone marrow.

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Noun	1.	marrow - the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones bone marrow bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates red bone marrow, red marrow - bone marrow of children and some adult bones that is required for the formation of red blood cells yellow bone marrow, yellow marrow - bone marrow that is yellow with fat; found at the ends of long bones in adults connective tissue - tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments immune system - a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
	2.	marrow - any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh marrow squash, vegetable marrow vegetable marrow, marrow - large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins Cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine - any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden courgette, zucchini - marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small cocozelle, Italian vegetable marrow - squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow
	3.	marrow - very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones bone marrow dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy - something considered choice to eat marrowbone - a bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup
	4.	marrow - large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins vegetable marrow summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden marrow squash, vegetable marrow, marrow - any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
	5.	marrow - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, gist, kernel, meat, nub, sum, core, heart, center, centre cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something stuff - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

marrow

noun core, heart, spirit, quick, soul, cream, substance, essence, kernel, gist, pith, quintessence the very marrow of his being

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marrow

noun

The most central and material part:

core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, root, soul, spirit, stuff, substance.

Law: gravamen.

Translations

كوسىكُوسَىنُخاع العِظام، مُخ العَظْم

dýněmorek

græskarmarv

Knochenmark Mark Eierkürbis Flaschenkürbis

μεδούλι μυελός κολοκύθι

médula tuétano calabaza alargada de cáscara verde

luuydinkesäkurpitsa

moelle potiron courge courgette

tikvica

velõ

medulla

Sum sum tulang

beinmergurkúrbítur

midollo zucchina

骨髄

골수

agurotiskaulų smegenys

kabaciskaulu smadzenes

courgette merg pompoen

marg squash

kabaczek szpik szpik kostny

medula tutano

кабачок костный мозг

špik

buča

märg

บวบฝรั่งขนาดใหญ่

iliksakız kabağı

quả bầu/bí

葫芦西葫芦骨髓

marrow

[ˈmærəʊ] N

1. (Anat) → médula f, tuétano m; (as food) → tuétano m de hueso
a Spaniard to the marrow → un español de pura cepa, un español hasta la médula
to be frozen to the marrow → estar helado hasta los huesos

2. (Brit) (Bot) (also vegetable marrow) → calabacín m
baby marrow → calabacín m, calabacita f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

marrow

[ˈmærəʊ] n

(in bone) → moelle f
to be chilled to the marrow → être gelé(e) jusqu'aux os

(= vegetable) → courge fmarrow bone marrowbone [ˈmærəʊbəʊn]

n → os m à moelle

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

marrow

(Anat) → (Knochen)mark nt; he’s a Scot to the marrow → er ist durch und durch Schotte; to be frozen to the marrow → völlig durchgefroren sein

(fig: of statement etc) → Kern m, → Wesentliche(s) nt

(Brit Bot: also vegetable marrow) → Gartenkürbis m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

marrow

[ˈmærəʊ] n

a. (Anat) → midollo
to be frozen to the marrow → sentirsi il gelo or il freddo nelle ossa

b. (vegetable) → zucca
baby marrow → zucchino

marrow

noun

1. the soft substance in the hollow parts of bones. Beef marrow is needed for this dish.

2. (American squash) a large, green, thick-skinned vegetable, or its flesh as food.

marrow

→ كُوسَى dýně græskar Knochenmark κολοκύθι calabaza alargada de cáscara verde, tuétano luuydin moelle tikvica midollo 骨髄 골수 pompoen marg szpik kostny tutano кабачок märg บวบฝรั่งขนาดใหญ่ ilik quả bầu/bí 西葫芦

mar·row

n. médula, tejido esponjoso que ocupa las cavidades medulares de los huesos;

pop. tuétano;

___ aspiration → aspiración de la ___;

___ cellularity → celularidad medular;

___ failure → insuficiencia medular;

___ infiltration → infiltración medular;

___ injury → lesión medular;

___ puncture → punción de la ___ ósea;

___ transplant → transplante de la ___.

marrow

n médula; bone — médula ósea

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Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.

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I know of no greater luxury than giraffe marrow, unless it is elephant's heart, and we had that on the morrow.

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I am chilled to the very marrow of my bones," answered Aunt Myra, chafing the end of her purple nose with her sombre glove.

"I hope the child won't stay out long, for this wind is enough to chill the marrow in younger bones than Myra's," thought Dr.

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You contemplate mentally your mischance, till little by little your mood changes, cold doubt steals into the very marrow of your bones, you see the inexplicable fact in another light.

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Guppy, I don't know but what I WILL take a marrow pudding."

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Nor can any son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly.

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I believe he thrusts pins through the heads of rabbits, he makes fowls eat madder, and punches the spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone."

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The cold, that smote to my marrow, and the pain I felt in breathing, overcame me.

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"And I with a family vault under that there church of Kingsbere as big as Squire Jollard's ale-cellar, and my folk lying there in sixes and sevens, as genuine county bones and marrow as any recorded in history.

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Terror chilled the very marrow of her bones; she stood there bewildered and stupefied.

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(which always tasted oily), and some rotten vegetable marrows and an old boot or two.