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Meaning of bony

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  bony
      adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
             "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
             men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
             cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
             wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony},
             {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched},
             {skeletal}, {wasted}]
      2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn:
         {osseous}, {osteal}, {bony}]
      3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad
         fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: {bony}, {boney}]
         [ant: {boneless}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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