Bony

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.
  • adj. Having an internal skeleton of bones.
  • adj. Full of bones: a bony fillet of fish.
  • adj. Having prominent or protruding bones: a bony wrist.
  • adj. Lean; scrawny.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
  • adj. full of bones
  • adj. with little flesh; skinny, thin
  • adj. having prominent bones
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
  • adj. Having large or prominent bones.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of bone or bones; full of bones; pertaining to or of the nature of bone.
  • Having large or prominent bones; stout; strong.
  • Reduced to bones; thin; attenuated.
  • Hard and tough like bone, as the fruit and seeds of some plants.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  • adj. composed of or containing bone
  • adj. having bones especially many or prominent bones
  • Equivalent
    lean    thin    bone    boned    bonelike    strong-boned   
    Variant
    boniest    bonier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    osteoid    ossean    osseous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berlusconi    Bologna    Castiglione    Marconi    Maroni    Moroni    Mulroney    Shoshone    Sony    Toni   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    skinny    lean    gaunt    hairy    fleshy    angular    gnarled    sinewy    wiry    thin