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marrow

/ˈmæɹəʊ/

noun

a soft, fatty tissue inside bones

  • “If you want to eat marrow, you have to break a bone.”Tatoeba
  • “Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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