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Meaning of SKELETAL

Pronunciation:  sk'elutul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [adj]  of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
 
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 Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, pinched, thin, wasted
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Skel"e*tal\, a.
Pertaining to the skeleton.
 
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