adjective
- Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
- usage: "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"
- Composed of or containing bone.
- usage: "osseous tissue"
- Having bones especially many or prominent bones.
- usage: "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"
- synonyms: boney
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