marrowish

English

Etymology

From marrow +‎ -ish.

Adjective

marrowish (comparative more marrowish, superlative most marrowish)

1. Similar to bone marrow.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

     In the upper region serving the animal faculties, the chief organ is the brain, which is a soft, marrowish, and white substance, ingendred of the purest part of seed and spirits, included by many skins, and seated within the skull or brain-pan; […]

Anagrams

• hairworms