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- verb Alternative spelling of
skeletonize .
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Examples
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For a payment of forty roubles I induced the chief of the village to skeletonise four of the half putrefied carcases of the sea-bear left lying on the grass, and I afterwards obtained, by the good-will of the Russian authorities, and without any payment, six animals, among them two living young, for stuffing.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Scion entomologist Dr Lisa Berndt says the young caterpillars skeletonise gum leaves by eating the green parts of the leaves, avoiding the veins, which results in a skeleton appearance to the leaf.
NZ On Screen 2010
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A school of the red piranha can skeletonise a cow in under two minutes
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With regard to his pigeons, Darwin wrote, in November 1855: "I love them to that extent that I cannot bear to kill and skeletonise them.")
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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