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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bony \Bon"y\, adjective
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones.
{Bony fish} (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden.
{Bony pike} (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bony
adjective
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: {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: {osseous}, {osteal}]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" [syn: {boney}] [ant: {boneless}] [also: {boniest}, {bonier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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