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English to English adjective
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composed of or containing bone |  | Example: osseous tissue
source: wordnet30
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having bones especially many or prominent bones | | Example: a bony shad fillet
her bony wrist
bony fish
source: wordnet30
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Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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