greenstick
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Denoting an incomplete fracture in which one cortex breaks while the other bends, typical of children.
The child's forearm showed a greenstick fracture with an intact but bowed volar cortex.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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