OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6920

marrow

/ˈmæɹəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
meollo • médula • tuétano
The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped sho…
calabaza
A kind of vegetable similar to a large courgette, zucchini or squash.
The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
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