marrow

IPA: mˈɛroʊ

(uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
(countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
The pith of certain plants.
The essence; the best part.
The inner meaning or purpose.
(medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.
(obsolete) Semen.
(Tyneside, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
(mining, slang, obsolete) A miner's mate or assistant.
(Scotland or archaic) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
A surname.

Examples of "marrow" in Sentences

The marrow is to be eaten "like tapanade" but without the olives.
The marrow is still there, but what's around it is brittle and splintered.
Before chemotherapy treatment begins, marrow is removedfrom the bones and stored; the marrow is then replaced.
The result was a dish that was carnal, and as barbaric as digging marrow from the bone can be, but also refined, by digging it out with a demitasse spoon.
I have a hard time believing a band of cutthroats would operate in this manner, but what really chills the marrow is the Clan's glib acceptance of these robbers who, as far as the Clan is concerned, winnow out the riff-raff.
The red marrow consists of a small quantity of connective tissue, bloodvessels, and numerous cells (Fig. 72), some few of which are fat cells, but the great majority are roundish nucleated cells, the true marrow cells of Kölliker.
In the bodies of the long bones the marrow is of a yellow color, and contains, in 100 parts, 96 of fat, 1 of areolar tissue and vessels, and 3 of fluid with extractive matter; it consists of a basis of connective tissue supporting numerous bloodvessels and cells, most of which are fat cells but some are marrow cells, such as occur in the red marrow to be immediately described.