غُرْضُوفٌ

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غُرْضُوفٌ and غُضْرُوفٌ [A cartilage;] any soft bone, such as is, or may be, eaten: pl. غَرَاضِيفُ and غَضَارِيفُ. The مَارِن i. e. [the soft, or cartilaginous, part,] the firm part that is harder than flesh and softer than bone, of the nose, is thus called. And [Any one of] the heads of the ribs [i. e. of the costal cartilages]. And The رَهَابَة [or ensiform cartilage] of the chest. And The [fibro-cartilage or] part within the قُوف [or helix] of the ear. And The نُغْض [q. v.] of the shoulder-blade. And الغُرْضُوفَانِ signifies The borders, or extremities, of the upper parts of the two shoulder-blades of the horse; what is thin, of the hard substance , of the bone. And they (وَهُمَا [i. e. the غُرْضُوفَانِ]) are Two sinews, or the like, (عَصَبَتَانِ, [perhaps, by a somewhat-strained license, applied here to the two tarsal cartilages,] in the borders, or extremities, of the inferior parts of the two eyes.
2 And الغُرْضُوفَانِ signifies [also] The two pieces of wood that are bound on the right and left between the وَاسِط [or fore part] and the آخِرَة [or hinder part] of the [camel's saddle called] رَحْل.

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