fibrocartilage
noun
fibrocartilage is a noun meaning “A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-R-O-C-A-R-T-I-L-A-G-E, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fibrocartilage is fibrocartilages.
What does fibrocartilage mean?
noun
- 1
A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fibrocartilage
- fibrocartilages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fibrocartilage?
Fibrocartilage appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fibrocartilage come from?
From fibro- + cartilage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).