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marrowish en · ADJ

Etymology

From marrow + -ish.

Meanings

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:

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