bony

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}]
    

Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
   1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
      to bones.
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   2. Having large or prominent bones.
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   {Bony fish} (Zool.), the menhaden.

   {Bony pike} (Zool.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "bony":
      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