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Tendinous   Listen
adjective
Tendinous  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
2.
Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.





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"Tendinous" Quotes from Famous Books



... and plush breeches, with an air as classic. The old state trumpeter at the castle, another object of my youthful veneration, poor "old God save the King" as we used to call him, walked the streets as of old; his cheeks indeed, a little more lanky and tendinous; but then there had been many viceregal changes, and the "one sole melody his heart delighted in," had been more frequently called in requisition, as he marched in solemn state with the other antique gentlemen in tabards. ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... Tendinous Surface resembles the preceding in form, but is broader and less smooth. In the recent state it is covered with fibro-cartilage for the passage of ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks
... FRITTERS. Tendinous fibres of the whale's blubber, running in various directions, and connecting the cellular substance which contains the oil. They are what remains after the oil has been tried out, and are used as fuel to try ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


Words linked to "Tendinous" :   sinewy, tendon


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