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Spinal discs, cushionlike pads that separate the vertebrae, are composed of tough, cartilaginous fibers and filled with water and a protein called "ground substance."

From Time Magazine Archive

He rested on a bed of soft moss, and this cushionlike substance had most likely saved him from fatal injury.

From The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Stratemeyer, Edward

It is one of the most pleasing characteristics of our native thickets that they never rise abruptly Always they shade off through cushionlike copses of smaller growth into the level ground around.

From Over Prairie Trails by Grove, Frederick Philip