composed of or containing bone; osseous tissue
having bones especially many or prominent bones; a bony shad fillet; her bony wrist; bony fish
[ Syn: boney ]
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 ]