Usually means: Brain tissue containing neuronal cell bodies.
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  1. grey matter: Collins English Dictionary
  2. grey matter: Vocabulary.com
  3. grey matter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. grey matter: Wiktionary
  5. grey matter: Dictionary.com
  6. Grey Matter (disambiguation), Grey Matter (film), Grey matter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. grey matter: Rhymezone
  8. grey matter: FreeDictionary.org
  9. grey matter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. grey matter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. grey matter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grey matter: Encyclopedia

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  3. grey matter: Medical dictionary

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  1. grey matter: Idioms

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  1. Grey Matter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grey matter)

noun:  (idiomatic) Brains; a person's ability to think.
noun:  Literal brains as a general substance.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A collection of cell bodies and (usually) dendritic connections, in contrast to white matter.

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