Definition of "adipose tissue" [adipose tissue]

• A type of connective tissue that contains stored cellular fat. (noun)

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• "To be sure they often look magnificently to my gymnasium-trained eye; and I always like to observe them when bathing, ” such splendid muscular development, set off by that smooth coating of adipose tissue which makes them, like the South-Sea Islanders appear even more muscular than they are."