About The Word Bony

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Bony

Bony Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bony?
[adj] having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"
[adj] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [adj] composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bony: bone(a) | boned | bonelike | boney | cadaverous | emaciated | gaunt | haggard | lean | osseous | osteal | pinched | skeletal | strong-boned | thin | wasted Related Terms | Find terms related to Bony: angular | bone | cement | cemental | concrete | corneous | dense | diamondlike | dure | flat | flat-chested | fleshless | flintlike | flinty | gangling | gangly | gaunt | gawky | granitelike | granitic | hard | hard as nails | hardhearted | horny | iron-hard | ironlike | lank | lanky | lapideous | lean | lean-fleshed | lean-looking | lithoid | lithoidal | marble | marblelike | meager | obdurate | osseous | ossicular | ossiferous | ossified | osteal | rawboned | resistant | resistive | rocklike | rocky | scraggy | scrawny | skeletal | skinny | solid | spare | spidery | spindling | spindly | steellike | steely | stonelike | stony | thin-bellied | thin-fleshed | tough | twiggy | undersized | underweight See Also | Bony In Webster's Dictionary \Bon"y\, a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones.
{Bony fish} (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden.
{Bony pike} (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
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