Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
- adj. Having large or prominent bones.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- adj. composed of or containing bone
- adj. having bones especially many or prominent bones
Examples
“And where do you think you are going then?' said I." He lifted one little thin bony arm from under his coverlid, and through all the dirt and the pallor of his face the smile of heaven I am sure was on it, as he looked and pointed upward and answered, 'Jesus!”
“And the thing is, that (1) while we know that mammals have pinnae, that doesn’t mean that non-mammalian mammaliaforms did, and (2) it’s well established that basal mammaliaforms like Megazostrodon differed in bony ear anatomy from mammals.”
“When they had closed the mine, the owners had dumped a couple of truckloads of bony, which is nothing more than the reject stuff from the shakers in the tipple, onto the road to the mine.”
“Although he is called a bony ass on account of his strength, [209] which would enable him to endure labors, especially such as were rustic, yet at the same time his sloth is indicated: for it is added a little afterwards, that he should be of servile disposition.”
“At Fig. 2 we have removed the skin and muscles and exposed the two main structural features in the form of the eye, namely the bony ring of the socket and the globe containing the lenses and retina.”
“It was of the kind commonly called the bony-tail or humpback or buffalo-fish, a peculiar species found in many of the rivers of the Southwest.”
“What is called a bony lesion by the osteopath and a subluxation by the chiropractor, is in reality a "ligatight," that is, a shrunken condition of the connective tissue forming the various ligaments that bind the vertebrae together.”
“It is now known as the bony-scaled pike, or gar pike, _Lepidosteus osseus_.”
“ “Her face, a little, But don't you find her kind of bony?””
“Some kind of bony crest is present over the caudal part of the nasoantorbital fenestra.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bony’.
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On with their heads!
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
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Descriptive
The present, the future. Goals, wishes, hopes.
capricious, sericeous, sleek, flawless, charming, skilled, long-haired, versatile, beautiful, witty, fair, thin and 145 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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Physical Words
These are words I like or would like to use to describe people's physicality, and are actually physical words. This is a companion to Not Quite Physical Words
gaunt, wizened, limber, rangy, gangly, svelte, cacopygian, callipygian, brittle, limping, tremor, cracked and 7 more...
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