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  1.  [SUB- 20 b.] Somewhat, partly or incompletely cartilaginous.

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1541.  R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Cyrurg., E iv. The subcartylagynous [substance of the nose; orig. L. pars cartilaginosa] is dowble one outwarde that maketh the typ of the nose and the other inwarde deuydeth the nosethyrlles.

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1787.  trans. Linnæus’ Fam. Plants, 487. The Fruit is a tongue pedicel’d, slender, subcartilaginous.

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1835–6.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 37/1. Body … gelatinous, supported by an internal, solid, subcartilaginous body.

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1887.  W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 43. Pezizæ … differs … from Bulgariæ by not being … subcartilaginous.

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  2.  [SUB- 1 b.] Lying beneath the cartilage; hypochondrial.

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1775.  Ash, Subcartilagenous, lying under the gristles.

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  So Subcartilagineous a. rare–0. [late L. subcartilāgineus] = sense 2 above.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Subcartilagineous, under the Gristles.

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