marrow

«marrow» in Mova's school dictionary: The soft tissue inside bones where new blood cells are made — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (marrow, marrows)

meaning for a pupil

1) (bone marrow) The soft tissue inside bones where new blood cells are made. tree →

2) (UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) A large, long, green vegetable like a giant courgette (zucchini). tree →

3) (to the marrow) Completely, deeply: «chilled to the marrow». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: bone marrow makes red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets; people can donate bone marrow to save lives. In gardening: marrows grow big in summer, and people show them at village fairs. Phrases: «bone marrow», «marrow bone», «chilled to the marrow».

examples

• Bone marrow makes new blood cells. tree →
• Grandpa grew a huge marrow in his garden. tree →
• The dog chewed a marrow bone. tree →
• We were frozen to the marrow after the snow walk. tree →
• Marrow is like a big courgette. tree →
• People can donate bone marrow to help sick patients. tree →
• He heard them crack the small round bones with their strong long teeth and eat out the oily marrow. tree →

note

Bone marrow is usually uncountable; the vegetable is countable (a marrow, marrows). In the USA the vegetable is usually called a squash; a courgette is a zucchini there.

In the corpora

• Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow, the soft middle of big bones, about 2 million every second.
• Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells.
• Bone marrow inside many bones makes blood cells.
• My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth doth praise Thee with joyful lips;
• It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «marrow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.