bony

bon·y or bon·ey  (bn)

adj. bon·i·er or bon·ey·er, bon·i·est or bon·ey·est

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.

2. Having an internal skeleton of bones.

3. Full of bones: a bony fillet of fish.

4.

a. Having prominent or protruding bones: a bony wrist.

b. Lean; scrawny.

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boni·ness n.

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bony

Adjective

[bonier, boniest]

1. resembling or consisting of bone

2. thin

3. having many bones

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bony - 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" cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	bony - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" osseous, osteal
	3.	bony - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" boney boneless - being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"

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bony

adjective thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, haggard, emaciated, scrawny, undernourished, cadaverous, rawboned, macilent (rare)

Translations

bony [ˈbəunɪ] adj [arm, face], (MED) [tissue] → huesudo; [meat] → lleno de huesos; [fish] → lleno de espinas (= thin) [person] → flaco, delgado

bony [ˈbəunɪ] adj [arm, face] (Med) [tissue] → osseux/euse (= thin) [person] → squelettique; [meat] → plein(e) d'os; [fish] → plein d'arêtes

bony [ˈbəunɪ] adj → knochig;

(Med) → knöchern;

(tissue) → knochenartig;

(meat) → mit viel Knochen;

(fish) → mit viel Gräten

bony [ˈbəunɪ] adj (= thin) [person] → ossuto/a, angoloso/a; [arm, face], (MED) [tissue] → osseo/a; [meat] → pieno/a di ossi; [fish] → pieno/a di spine

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