Meaning of BONY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bownee
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- [adj] having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
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| | Synonyms: | | bone(a), boned, bonelike, boney, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, osseous, osteal, pinched, skeletal, strong-boned, thin, wasted |
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| | Definition: | | \Bon"y\, a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones.
{Bony fish} (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden.
{Bony pike} (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
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| | Related Terms: | | angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight |
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