English Dictionary

marrow

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmæɹəʊ/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 口語 廃用

(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.

日本語の意味

骨髄（骨の中にあり、血液細胞を生産する物質） / 野菜の一種（大きなズッキーニやスクワッシュに似たもの） / 植物の髄（植物の中心部分、柔らかい内部部分）

Doctors decided to perform a biopsy to examine the patient's marrow for signs of leukemia.

医師たちは白血病の兆候を調べるために患者の骨髄の生検を行うことに決めた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

意味（2）

(countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.

The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.

意味（3）

The pith of certain plants.

意味（4）

The essence; the best part.

It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.

意味（5）

The inner meaning or purpose.

意味（6）

(medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.

This patient will have a marrow today.

意味（7）

(obsolete) Semen.

Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed.

marrows （ plural ）