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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Anat.)

Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.

Adj.

Consisting of gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous; as the gristly rays of fins connected by membranes.

gristly ‎(comparative gristlier, superlative gristliest)