CARTILAGINOUS TUBE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A duct with cartilaginous walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cartilaginous tube" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cartilaginous tube"):

bronchial tube; bronchus (either of the two main branches of the trachea)

trachea; windpipe (membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi)

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