Textual thesaurus for "bony"

(adj) boney

having bones especially many or prominent bones

a bony shad fillet; her bony wrist; bony fish

(adj) haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched

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

(adj) osseous, osteal

composed of or containing bone

osseous tissue