Definitions

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  • adjective (of animals) armored with bone

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Examples

  • Dougal stopped and rubbed the stubble on his chin as he scanned the bone-covered passage before him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Dougal stopped and rubbed the stubble on his chin as he scanned the bone-covered passage before him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Dougal stopped and rubbed the stubble on his chin as he scanned the bone-covered passage before him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Dougal stopped and rubbed the stubble on his chin as he scanned the bone-covered passage before him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • And within, Astrid faces other, unexpected threats: from crumbling, bone-covered walls that vibrate with a terrible power to the hidden agendas of her fellow hunters to – perhaps most dangerously of all – her growing attraction to a handsome art student… and a relationship that could jeopardize everything.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • These lakes abounded in bone-covered fishes of strange and now long-extinct types, while the land around was clothed with a club moss and reed-like vegetation—Psilophyton, Sigillaria, Calamite, etc. —the oldest terrestrial flora of which any abundant records have yet been found in Europe.

    Geographical Evolution 1909

  • There is bone furniture, a dog made of bone and a bone-covered counter top.

    KSDK.com NBC-St. Louis Education 2010

  • After a lunch stop on a bone-covered gravel beach, we made the three-kilometre crossing to Carmen Island, the largest island in the park and our base for the night.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DARRYL LENIUK 2009

  • Dougal glanced up at the bone-covered ceiling and reminded himself there had to be some stone and earth up there somewhere behind the remains—that they weren’t just moving through a tunnel carved out of a mountain of bones.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Dougal glanced up at the bone-covered ceiling and reminded himself there had to be some stone and earth up there somewhere behind the remains—that they weren’t just moving through a tunnel carved out of a mountain of bones.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

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