"bony" in the adjective sense
1. scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
being very thin
"a child with skinny freckled legs"
"a long scrawny neck"
"pale bony hands"
2. osseous, osteal, bony
composed of or containing bone
"osseous tissue"
3. bony, boney
having bones especially many or prominent bones
"a bony shad fillet"
"her bony wrist"
"bony fish"
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