Definition: having bones especially many or prominent bones
Usage: a bony shad fillet; her bony wrist; bony fish
Main entry: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: 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
Main entry: osseous, osteal, bony
Definition: composed of or containing bone
Usage: osseous tissue