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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
   1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
      to bones.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Having large or prominent bones.
      [1913 Webster]

   Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.

   Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Bony:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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