Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no skeleton.

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Examples

  • For even Bunin is a poet and a stylist rather than a story teller: his most characteristic "stories" are works of pure atmosphere, as diffuse and as skeletonless as a picture by Claude

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • The skeletonless coral (ALCYONARIA) has a sulphurous savour of its own, and the echini and bêche-de-mer are also to be separately distinguished by their fumes.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

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