bony

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bony Definition

• (a) composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
• (a) having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"
• (s) 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"

bony Synonyms

• boney
• bony
• cadaverous
• emaciated
• gaunt
• haggard
• osseous
• osteal
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted