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chondro-
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chondro-, [Gr. a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.].
A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos. [1913 Webster]
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